The Sea and Me

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[This message was edited by basilh on 10 December 2006 at 02:39 AM.]

No sure if you are looking for the chords for the middle part of the song. But anyway, I took a listen and this is chord progression I hear.

C#m - D# - D - C#7 - C - B7 - Bm7 - E7

[This message was edited by Derrick Mau on 10 December 2006 at 02:07 AM.]

Yes it's the middle section, after the 3m I'm having difficulty differentiating between major, minor and sevenths. The drum is somewhat 'Clouding" the bottom end and all I can hear is roots and fifths.

I hear C#m - D#7 - Bm - C#7 - Am - B7 - Bm7 - E7_A#dim.

Explanations are needed as to why the A note was left on the vocal but played as a passing A# on the steel solo.

I can see the diminished chord replacing the seventh and pretending to be a flat ninth, but they didn't play that.

[This message was edited by basilh on 10 December 2006 at 06:29 AM.]

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the first thing we do is throw out all the minors and play the relative majors.

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In a lot of posts regarding the vocal backing and strings on Jerry's albums the producer has been blamed and it has been intimated that Jerry had NO control over the arrangements, so HOW can Jerry say in a talk tape to you that he was responsible for what 'went Down' on tape.

C.C. Pat and I both love you dearly but we MUST agree to disagree with you on this particular issue.
Please take this as an objective observation, the comments made by Jerry on that tape were at the least a "Wind-Up" if not just a jocular quip.

It's definitely Jerry's sense of humour shining through,
"Don't play the minors"
Don't say that aloud to to many other musicians.

[This message was edited by basilh on 10 December 2006 at 08:43 AM.]

One theory behind why the bridge works is this: if you think of the C#m as A#m7-5 (root omiited or at least very quiet) then the bridge is just circle of 5ths, or a succession of ii V in G#m, F#m, Em:
[tab]
A#m7-5 ( = C#m/A#) D#7
G#m7-5 ( = Bm/G#) C#7
F#m7-5 ( = Am/F#) B7
Bm7 E7

Now for the pickup chord vs pickup melody into the next verse

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Another anomaly is the diminished chord linking the bridge to the line "The breakers Play" the chord is Gdim but the melody is E C# A The A note should be an A# to fit the chord ?

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I also took the C#m to be the half-diminished lead-in.
Strange that Jerry wrote the song and didn't correct Marty on the lack of the A# note.
Can anyone post the INSTRUMENTAL version by Jerry, just for analysis sake, PLEASE.

[This message was edited by basilh on 10 December 2006 at 08:58 AM.]

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My skin is as thick as an armadillo

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