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Funeral For a Friend / Love Lies Bleeding (Elton John) | Behind the Score Ep. 54 (Patreon)

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2024-05-14 21:05:29
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2024-06
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Next up in our Behind the Score series are the first two songs from Elton John's classic double album Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. I love Elton's unique blend of classical and popular styles...and these tunes abound with harmonic twists and turns. I hope you enjoy!

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Funeral For a Friend / Love Lies Bleeding (Elton John) | Behind the Score Ep. 54

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Adrian Goodrich

This was the first "piece of black plastic" I ever bought, in 1974. Before that, I had Bowie and Elton and loads of radio tapes on cassette. It remains my favourite Elton album, by FAR. Side one is just wonderful. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, This Song Has No Title, Grey Seal (best song on the album IMO), all of Side 3, and Saturday Night are all just wonderful. I really enjoyed Doug's interpretation and explanation - again. I know little of music theory, but I am learning from Doug. And following the score was SO interesting for me, 50 years after I first heard this album. Proud to remain a patreon.

Jeff Norman

With all respect for the transcriber, it seems to me that, even though most often the sections begin on a major chord, most of the rest of the chords in the sequence come from the parallel minor scale rather than the major. Seems to me it would make more sense to consider those sections in the minor key, with a major chord borrowed from the parallel major, than the way this person chose to notate it... Okay, the problem is...we never land on the actual I in that case! It's also true that I-bIII-bVI-bVII is a super-common rock sequence...