Thursday, July 30, 2015

"Time's Running Out"

Backdated, archival post

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I've been listening to Colin Blunstone's solo albums recently.  Yester-day it was Ennismore.  I thought I'd heard the B-A-C-H motif in "Time's Running Out," but it's slightly different, even if transposed (F# G C A#).  But after figuring out that phrase, I figured out the chords too.  One took a long time to suss out because it's such a weird chord for the key it's in.  The verses use a pretty standard chord progression (I vi IV V), but that second chord is major instead of minor (so: I VI IV V).

I'm not sure if the guitar part uses the same picking pattern through the song, but that's how I played it.  After recording the acoustic part, I figured out the electric part at the end too.