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Old 02-04-2010, 06:15 PM
michelej1 michelej1 is offline
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Originally Posted by David View Post
Not quite the same, Mich. I address the differences in an old post. If I knew how to use the Search feature, I'd dig it up.
Perhaps, something along these lines:

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They're quite similar, but they're very simple patterns that are used in hundreds of songs. The technical term is arpeggio. The pattern is even a tiny bit like Believe Me. A difference is that Wish You Were Here arpeggios are chordal inversions in a single chord (I-I-I-I) whereas the Silver Springs intro is a I-I-IV-I pattern of inversions. But it's the warm air mass inversion that really cooks that tune & launches it into the stratosphere.
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