Spirit Of Radio Chord Progression

[worthog]

Okay, can anybody tell me what the main chord progression is for Spirit of Radio, need to know for a presentation I am making about the song for my History of Rock class.

[Ted Barchetta]

It's E, B, G#, A and B again. I'm going by the bassline on this one. It should be close to it.

[1-0-0-1-0-0-1]

QUOTE (Ted Barchetta @ Nov 1 2010, 02:03 AM)

It's E, B, G#, A and B again. I'm going by the bassline on this one. It should be close to it.

Close. For bass you have the notes right, but for guitar, that G# is actually an E chord with a G# bass note.

 

So, the progression goes like this: E - B - E/G# - A - B

 

Alex plays different variations of those chords throughout the song -- he plays suspended chords at times -- but for the sake of this project, the above should be good enough.

[flybyknight]

Open E and G# on bass (Max Webster style)

[psionic11]

Right, E A E A B, almost a standard 3-chord rock song progression. The second E has the third at the bottom (E/G#), as mentioned earlier.

 

Also, the chorus uses the same inversion with the third at the bottom:

 

E (invisible airwaves)

D (crackle with life)

E (bright antennae)

D (bristle with the energy)

 

is the chord progression, but with the thirds on the bass notes it becomes

 

E....... (invisible airwaves)

D/F# (crackle with life)

E/G# (bright antennae)

D/F# (bristle with the energy)

 

The reggae section is just E A B.

[MMCXII]

woah, stop, hold on, wait just one minute..... history of rock?? where in the bloody hell was this when I went to school? I might've actually graduated! lol