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Chordplay - 'The Chords of Frank Zappa'

Late Night Lessons 67,257 6 years ago
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Here's the next episode of Chordplay and this time we're taking a look at some of the interesting and lush chord varieties hiding in the music of legendary guitarist/composer Frank Zappa. Zappa's music is notoriously known to include unusual, challenging, and abstract elements of music, but this lesson taps into some of the more attainable textures and sounds found in his work. This includes taking a look at a few one and two-chord modal vamps commonly found in his music, which occasionally revolved around using Lydian and Dorian-based modal tonalities. Once a few sample chords and progressions are located, this episode continues with a little "chord-talk" regarding the songs 'Zoot Allures' and 'Black Napkins,' and closes with the hauntingly beautiful chords found in 'Sleep Dirt.' Give this episode a view, leave some comments and feedback, and please subscribe to Late Night Lessons - THANK YOU! Become a Patreon supporter for Late Night Lessons - www.patreon.com/latenightlessons

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