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Peacock Tail chords

PostPosted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 8:00 pm
by mucephei
Messing about on the piano as you do, I found what I believe to be the chords for Peacock Tail. All the chords are major:

G flat / D flat / A flat / E flat / B flat/F / F

That fifth chord is a B flat major over an F in the bass; on my little version it is a second inversion (ie starts on F then B flat then D) which then resolves nicely to a F major triad.



Of course, on the record it sounds about a quarter tone flat - a piano tuned to A=440Hz would sound horribly sharp.

PostPosted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 8:12 pm
by s7409651
YES!!! finally someone worked this one out. Can't wait to give it a bash. Cheers!

PostPosted: Sat Oct 10, 2009 10:07 am
by mucephei
I have an erratum to add to my original post, because I forgot one of the chords in the sequence. The chords are:

G flat major - D flat major - A flat major - E flat major -
G flat major - B flat major/F - F major

PostPosted: Sun Oct 11, 2009 9:39 pm
by TrippyTrinity
This song is in the key of A.

According to your chord progression it sounded way off.

PostPosted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 10:40 pm
by mucephei
Here's my "version" of Peacock Tail, using the chords I suggested at the top of this thread.

Please forgive my crap piano playing....


Peacock_Tail_2009-10-13.wma - 1.42MB

PostPosted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 11:45 pm
by s7409651
Very interesting to hear.. I'm loving that we're getting new covers of songs that havn't been covered before. I think posting something like this whether it's accurate or not, will at least increase our musical understanding, and our appreciation for BoC
8)