Chord Of The Week 3rd Birthday 6/8/16 - a D9 arpeggio from "I Feel Good" by James Brown

bigjon

Back to Twinkle Jazz in a couple of weeks, celebrity deaths permitting. Meanwhile I like to do special chords to mark the milestones, and Chord Of The Week (now nicked as a feature by BBC Proms I see, must confuse on Twitter with the competing hashtags!) began on the first Saturday in August 2013 with a discussion of Dminor that generated 77 different chord shapes. So here for our third birthday is another single chord (actually an arpeggio - a chord played one note at a time) which identifies a whole song by itself - the James Brown "I Feel Good" D9 arpeggio - 

D9: x x 12 x x x, x x x 11 x x, x x x x 10 x, x x x x 13 x, x x x x x 12

Played one note at a time on the offbeats after the lyric 'I got you' at the end of the verse, you can hear it at 0:18


Next week an amalgamation of the two guitar parts in the main riff of this song.

bigjon

Chord Of The Week index updated with 158 discussions at http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/598/chord-of-the-week-index