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mainly because it affects the way you play - note choices, phrasing, that sort of thing.
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
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When I was 17 (a long, long time ago), my first real band covered Freebird. It was acceptable to cover that back in the 70s as it was Stairway. Fast forward to 2006, and my then band had a debate about putting Freebird, and Stairway back in the set.
We looked at playing Wynonna Judd's version of Freebird, and Frank Zappa's cover of stairway. We had the brass players for Stairway, but it was going to involve a lot of people on stage for one song. In the end we thought better of it.
Or is it G?
Anyhoo, it's ALL in the interpretation, and therefore you can convey it in either key. I think we can all be clear it's got absolutely nothing to do with which chord it starts on - nobody thinks New Rose is in D or Beethoven's 5th is Eb major!
In the past I've always played it in D - that is, with our dynamics and fills, we've made it lead towards the D, so every bar sounds like I ----- bVII ----- IV --- (bVII) I. And the final chord, the I chord, has been the D.
Having listened to the live versions I hear clearly that LS has orchestrated it to be in G, ie it's V IV I I; V IV I I. The repeated phrase comes out at you every bar. Particularly reinforced by the way the bass is played, and obviously by the timing of the lyrics, and how that I chord is rather 'settled' - there's less happening on the I than there is on the other chords so it sounds more home-like.
But I maintain it can nevertheless be played in D; when we've played it, we've still been accelerating through the G, in order to land on the D, and there are many parts of the song that support D, such has the birmingham hoohoohoos, and the start of the solo.
I guess the question is, is it in G or D?
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.