Chords for Eye In The Sky - Guitar Lesson Preview

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_ [Em] _ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ _
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[Gbm] I _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ [A] _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _
_ [G] _ [N] love this song.
I never really thought about doing anything with it on the guitar.
_ _ It's
hypnotic, it sucks you in, it's haunting.
This is of course, Eye in the Sky, Alan Parsons,
from their 1982 album of the same name, Eye in the Sky.
_ Of course it starts with a little
spacey instrumental, Sirius, that kind of morphs into it.
Eventually Sirius gets reduced to [B] just
the bass part, _ implying a B minor [G] chord and a G chord.
So that's where I started, was really
just with that first little [B] thing.
[A] And then brought in the keyboard parts.
As I was listening to this,
I thought, you know those keyboard parts can be done and we can keep the bass going, because that's
what we really hear in [N] this song, is the thumping bass, constant flow of eighth notes.
And then it's
not that hard to work in the keyboard chords.
And so I tried to make this arrangement more like
what you'd hear with just the keyboard and the bass, not really so much about the guitar. _
And
it would be what you could play to accompany it and sing it.
_ Especially if you had Eric Wolfson's
voice.
_ Now Eric passed away a few years ago, so nobody's out there performing Eye in the Sky
anymore.
There is an interesting video of Alan Parsons and a little four-piece unplugged group
doing it from Germany.
I really encourage you to check that out, because Alan does, Alan sings it.
And it's a bit of a stretch, but it's great hearing _ him do it.
What we're going to talk about in this
lesson is the fingering and techniques really necessary to get all of that to happen together,
and the independence of keeping your thumb just pounding away through the chords.
So all I have,
we're not going to go with charts or anything else with this, it's really just going to be the
instrumental backup to Eye in the Sky.
So I've just got a page with Tab, and we'll talk about
the chords, and we'll talk about the [Gm] names of the chords.
[B] There's some unusual ones.
_ [A] _ And,
ah, we can talk about_
well, maybe not.
Okay, never mind.
I've got to save that for a different
story.
[N] So, okay, coming up, a little dissection of the _ assemblage of Eye in the Sky. _ _
_ _ _ _ The right-hand
technique is pretty interesting, because usually your three [Eb] fingers are going to be working as a
group just plucking [Em] chords.
If I were to just play the open strings, just hit them like [Am] that.
Sometimes I'll be playing on [F] the first beat of the measure and the and of beat [Em] two.
One and two and
three and four and one and two and three and four and.
Along with that, though, we've got a [C] steady
diet of eighth [E] notes.
_ So I'm just playing open strings right now so you can get the feel for it.
And so we need to be able to keep your thumb going, keeping beat for us, and we'd be counting this.
One
and two and three and four and one and two and three and four and.
[Em] So the first thing I would
practice is particularly the rhythm of a dotted quarter and another note coming on the and of two
along with those eighth notes.
So that second, we would pinch on beat one, a bass note on the and,
a bass note on two, and another pinch on the and of two, and then three [E] and four and.
So,
[Ab] right hand exercise for this song.
[Em] One and two and three and four and.
_ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ The chords in the song
are fairly [Ab] normal.
We could play through a very simple version of the song.
[D] Just the general
chord progression would be D, _ _ _ _ _ B minor.
[Bm] _ _ _ _ _ _
Happen again.
[D] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ _
Let's say with the bars, go [G] to G, _ _ G [Gm] minor.
We're going to have much easier ways to play both of [A] those.
And E7sus4 with B in the bass. _ _ _ _ _
So the
verse starts off with our A with D in the bass.
I would usually play that with my first and second
fingers as I've talked about in an earlier section.
_ [D] _ And just move it and move these two fingers to [A] our
standard D.
One and [D] two and three and four [A] and.
Now you could do the exact same thing in [D] the second
measure, but I like to for just a little [E] variety, come to a different voicing.
Coming up to the fifth
fret, leaving the first string open [A] and playing these two notes out of the A chord, the E and
the C sharp, and going to the higher [D] D.
So that we hear just a little different, a little variety
here.
Instead of hearing the F sharp on [A] the top, _ _ [D] _ we hear an A in there.
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