Chord Of The Week 28/11/15 - The Extreme 'Hole-Hearted' E/D chord.

bigjon

Good chords by unfashionable bands, continued. The introduction to the song 'Hole-Hearted' by Extreme is in the key of D, but the main part of the song is in the key of A, of which D is the IV chord and E is the V chord. So when Nuno plays an open D chord at the beginning of the song and then slides it up 2 frets to an E, but with the open D string still ringing, it's a mundane diatonic V/IV chord in the context of the key of A but in the more immediate context of the key of D it's an exotic-sounding D13#11, the #11 being a key indicator of the lydian mode where the 4th / 11th degree of the major scale is raised by a semitone.

E/D: xx0454

The camera focuses on Nuno playing the chord at 0:03 in the official video of the song.

bigjon

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Modellista

Extreme - unfashionable?!  Ooh!!!

Cool chord; there's many to be found here, especially the "slidey" kind as chosen here - common shapes up and down the board with a pedal bass, particularly in the chorus.  Also a good example of a song with a non-obvious key change - the chorus is properly in D, and the verse (as you say) properly in A.

As an Extreme devotee, back in the day this song taught me more about rhythm playing in four minutes than any number of hours of reading theory could have done.

Dominic

jUST ABOUT THE MOST SATISFYING TUNE THERE IS TO PLAY ON A 12 STRING !