

        <cite>SPEAKER_00</cite>
      <time>0:00</time>
      <p>
          Man, I totally fell in love with this song. From the Beginning is a song written by Greg Lake from Emerson Lake and Palmer. I&#39;ve always known the intro, because my dad always begged me to learn it and play it. Um, but I never really got into the second half of the song, but I&#39;m super into it right now. And the chords are amazing. So let&#39;s talk about the intro to start off. Okay, so we got that&#39;s got the harmonics. Low E. We&#39;re in the key of E right now. And then right? Love that slide. And then love that. It&#39;s all just E minor. That&#39;s the minor seventh to the octave. Landing on the fifth. Yeah. Crawling out the minor scale. And now we hit the four chord, A. Beautiful slide from the minor third to the minor sixth. And then we got this beautiful chord. Yeah, nice. A minor nine, okay. That&#39;s just like zero, ten, twelve, open, open. Now this beautiful passage right here, just two fingers. And then they switch. Now they&#39;re very simple chords to play, just zero, eleven, ten, zero. And then zero ten eleven zero. But it&#39;s pretty um sophisticated. We got D add nine, and then this is crazy. D minor with a flat six, but still the nine. So D minor flat six slash nine. And it&#39;s fast. And then that&#39;s D minor nine. So if we were just at D add nine and that D minor nine. Just kind of hovers there for a second, and then the song kicks off. So that&#39;s A minor nine, just like it did before with that in the intro. That&#39;s the same chord. And then this is really nice. This is a form of D, okay? So D is the four chord of A minor. But they&#39;re doing a really cool uh voicing of D add nine add 11. Look at that. But the bass is hitting the D. So it&#39;s like so it&#39;s like And it&#39;s uh because it&#39;s a D major chord, that means it&#39;s Dorian. In the key of A minor, when you play D, it should be, if you&#39;re staying true to A minor, it should be a D minor chord. But because it&#39;s D major, it&#39;s the Dorian mode, and the Dorian mode has like a kind of relief sound to it, and it really helps make the song feel very contemplative and kind of spacey.
      </p>

        <cite>SPEAKER_01</cite>
      <time>3:04</time>
      <p>
          There might have been things I&#39;m in.
      </p>

        <cite>SPEAKER_00</cite>
      <time>3:07</time>
      <p>
          And then right away we get this beautiful new chords. But don&#39;t be unkind.
      </p>

        <cite>SPEAKER_01</cite>
      <time>3:12</time>
      <p>
          Look at this. Don&#39;t be applied.
      </p>

        <cite>SPEAKER_00</cite>
      <time>3:19</time>
      <p>
          Oh my god. Let&#39;s go back to that.
      </p>

        <cite>SPEAKER_01</cite>
      <time>3:22</time>
      <p>
          There are minor things I&#39;m in.
      </p>

        <cite>SPEAKER_00</cite>
      <time>3:25</time>
      <p>
          And then that&#39;s just C, which is the relative major of A minor. Right? C. That&#39;s nice crawl down, C over B, makes a lot of sense, but then we jump to F, which is the sixth, which is the sixth chord. That&#39;s a regular G, which is the seventh chord of A minor, but back to the sixth. He makes it a F add nine. Beautiful. And then right here, D minor nine. And then we start again. Beautiful.
      </p>

        <cite>SPEAKER_01</cite>
      <time>4:05</time>
      <p>
          Perhaps like a thing or two.
      </p>

        <cite>SPEAKER_00</cite>
      <time>4:08</time>
      <p>
          It&#39;s just a beautiful progression of chords, and I love that it&#39;s not too busy vocally, right? He just does like a simple kind of melody and it backs away because there&#39;s a lot of beautiful arpeggiating going on. Arpeggiating, by the way, is when you go You&#39;re like arpeggiating a chord, you&#39;re like outlining a chord. Right? As opposed to strumming a chord.
      </p>

        <cite>SPEAKER_01</cite>
      <time>4:30</time>
      <p>
          Okay, so we got Perhaps there&#39;s a thing or two. I think of li I think of lying in bed. I shouldn&#39;t have said Aw beautiful, shouldn&#39;t have said. But there it is. So contemplative and s you see it so clear. You were meant to be here.
      </p>

        <cite>SPEAKER_00</cite>
      <time>5:03</time>
      <p>
          My god, like what a beautiful chorus if you want to call it that. You see it so D minor seven.
      </p>

        <cite>SPEAKER_01</cite>
      <time>5:10</time>
      <p>
          So G9. Yeah, look at that. Back to it.
      </p>

        <cite>SPEAKER_00</cite>
      <time>5:16</time>
      <p>
          You were meant to be here. So we go to the five chord, but he makes it super sophisticated. It&#39;s like an E sus with a flat nine, okay? Because we have that instead of E should have the F sharp, but now it has the F, okay? Like the flat nine, F9. It&#39;s like dissonant, but it&#39;s perfect. And then the bass.
      </p>

        <cite>SPEAKER_01</cite>
      <time>5:41</time>
      <p>
          Right? From the beginning.
      </p>

        <cite>SPEAKER_00</cite>
      <time>5:51</time>
      <p>
          Wonderful passage of chords. Let&#39;s continue on. Second verse.
      </p>

        <cite>SPEAKER_01</cite>
      <time>5:55</time>
      <p>
          Maybe there might have changed not been so cruel not been such a fool. Whatever is done is done. I just can&#39;t recall. It doesn&#39;t matter at all.
      </p>

        <cite>SPEAKER_00</cite>
      <time>6:21</time>
      <p>
          And by the way, that further accentuates Dorian because he&#39;s playing the major six right here. Really nice. So here&#39;s A. You got the flat seven. That&#39;s the major six. Like so E is like the leading chord, right? It&#39;s like you could have just done E or like E7. You were meant to be here from the beginning. But it&#39;s not like tasteful enough. It&#39;s not the right chord. Wow. I feel like I&#39;m in like a hidden temple, man. From the beginning. And I love the It&#39;s so final. Because when you go from the minor seven to the root, he adds that mystical major ninth. And he&#39;s saying from the beginning. Like it&#39;s so epic.
      </p>

        <cite>SPEAKER_01</cite>
      <time>7:33</time>
      <p>
          From the beginning.
      </p>

        <cite>unknown</cite>
      <time>7:36</time>
      <p>
          From the beginning.
      </p>

        <cite>SPEAKER_00</cite>
      <time>7:39</time>
      <p>
          Right here. Oh my god. When I first heard that, I was like, what? And then once you really learn it, it&#39;s like not as difficult. Like it sounds crazy difficult, but you do have to get some picking down. But essentially it&#39;s it&#39;s like 0234 on the bottom three strings. So it&#39;s like so it&#39;s like so it&#39;s like beautiful. And I don&#39;t really know the solo that well, but I know it&#39;s like it&#39;s like it kind of sounds like polythene Pam by the Beatles, like a similar tone, and then and then it takes his time. Beautiful phrasing. The song is very mystical, it&#39;s very pensive, and a lot of it has to do with the minor root to the major D, but with the interesting passages, right? It&#39;s the Dorian sound, it&#39;s like kind of magical. It sounds a little blue to me. I totally love breaking the song down. Thanks so much for tuning in to my breakdowns. And if you&#39;re interested in working together on a music production level and really work with me to define your sound, develop your sound, then just check out learn.dambaricuda.com slash own your sound. I&#39;d love to work with you on your music. Thanks, guys, and I&#39;ll see you in the next episode.
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