I've been working on learning tobikata wo wasureta chiisana tori for the past month or so. I was running into a lot of roadblocks -- namely odd jazz-type chords that aren't easy to pick out, given that my hearing isn't as good as it should be. 'Cause if I was writing this song myself, the chords would probably be something like:
B Bbm Ebm Abm B7 E
sora wo ka ke ru hikouki mado kara
B/D# E/C# F#
miorosu kumo wa yuki no you
But instead, they are something like:
B Bbm Eb Abm F#m7 F#m7/B E(add8)It has now taken me, off and on, one month to figure this out.
sora wo ka ke ru hiko uki mado kara
B/D# E/C# Ebmaj7/F#
miorosu kumo wa yuki no you
Last Friday, out of desperation, I tried chord analysis software -- that thing was buggier than Vista. It crashed every time I tried to load it and threw (mostly ignorable) error messages galore -- I later discovered it doesn't like mp3s very much, which was not helpful because the demo project file specifically included mp3 files to show off the analysis. I managed to circumvent this by removing the source mp3s, but either I don't know how to read hexagons and spectra, or that thing doesn't do a very good job. I gave it clean C major and D major chords, and while the official analysis box spat out the correct chord, the hexagons, which are supposed to tell you things about what's likely to be the bass note, and what notes are being played in the chord, are completely and utterly off, which made it useless for figuring out that F#m7 and F#m7/B that's been throwing me for weeks and weeks.
Out of even further desperation, I dragged
ciaran_h
into it, and he said he was pretty sure it was A major. I could not for
the life of me see how straight A major worked, but after playing
around A/B sounded right. Then it didn't sound completely
right, until I finally put an F# below, making it F#m7/B instead of A
major. I think. Who knows if it's actually A(add6)/B, or if they're the
same thing anyway? Then there was the issue of there being two chords,
which sounded nearly alike, and I couldn't figure out how they were
different. After putting the chords on repeat for a while, I nailed it
down to just plain F#m7 and then F#m7/B for the second chord. The next
few chords weren't nearly as difficult, but they now put me at the
problem of the last chord in the first verse. I ended up having to put
it on repeat for at least three hours non-stop before it occured to me
to put the song in C major and then play with the chord. After more
non-stop chord repitition, I finally mostly figured out something that
sounds more like it should -- Ebmaj7/F#. Jeez. Not even the guy who
played keys for MISIA's Hoshizora no LIVE got all these chords exactly
right, and I don't blame him one bit for it.
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