"How We Were Before"

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Two days ago, I was playing around with some guitar chords, and I realized that "How We Were Before" includes a chromatic phrase… sort of.

I'm not sure that the chords are played as straight chords; I think they're broken into arpeggios or something.  Still, there's a chromatic phrase within the chord progression.

D major (D, F#, A)

D major 7th (D, F#, A, C#)

D major dominant 7th (D, F#, A, C)

G major (G, B, D)

G minor (G, Bb, D)

D major (D, F#, A)

Although, since it's in D major, it might technically be A# instead of Bb.  So the chromatic phrase is D, C#, C, B, A#, A.

Excepting the numerous instances three-note chromatic phrases, I think this is the third chromatic phrase I've found now.  (The other two are in the bass parts of "Indication" and "This Will Be Our Year.")