Last week, I figured out the chords for "Breakdown." I think they're something like:
|: A major | G major | F major | A major :|
|: D minor | C major | A major :|
|: G major | A major :|
And during the guitar solo and the coda:
|: A major | G major | A major :|
Nominally, this is in A major, but aside from A major itself, all of these chords have at least one accidental. To some degree, these accidentals indicate the sentiments in the song: "I breakdown in the middle and lose my thread... Nothing I try to do can work the same way."
Aside from the introduction, my first post for this project was a recording of the palm-muted guitar chords and electric piano phrase in "Eye in the Sky," and I commented that one of the chords "sounds a bit weird, but I don't know if that's because it's wrong or just because the rest of the parts aren't there." It turns out it was wrong.
After I listened to Eye in the Sky last month, I discovered that I'd never written down the electric piano phrase, so I re-learned it (and wrote it down). I had written down the chords, but in revisiting the song, I discovered that what I'd thought was a Bb major is actually a G minor. It doesn't particularly come across in my new recording because it's mostly the bottom three strings of the guitar that are played (G D G').
When I made my recording five years ago, I was limited in my keyboard sounds, but since I got a Nord Electro 5 about two years ago, I can now more accurately reproduce the Wurlitzer that Eric Woolfson played on the track. I added some chorusing and panning too, but I'm not sure if the original has that or not.
Unlike last time where I played the chords for the whole song, this is just the introduction and the first verse. Were it not for my previous mistake in the chord progression, I wouldn't have even recorded that much because all I know of the verses are the chords, and they're a bit boring to listen to on their own.
Here are the chords, which I still might have wrong, but which are at least a bit more accurate than what I used in my last recording:
Introduction/Coda
|: B minor | G major :|
Verses
|: D major | B minor :|
G major | G minor | D major | E major
D major | G major | D major
Choruses
|: D major | F# minor :|
G major | G minor
|: B minor | G major :|
EDIT (29 April): YouTube deleted my video, citing it as "inappropriate content" (!?), so I posted it on Twitter:
Last night I figured out the electric piano and acoustic guitar parts in "Genesis Ch.1 V.32." While recording a version to-day, I sort of stumbled across the electric guitar part too, although my guitar tone isn't even close to matching.
The sections repeat with little variation, so I just did a couple of them in my recording.
As always, I might be wrong about this, but here's the electric piano part:
It just repeats throughout the song. The guitar chords are D minor | C major | Bb major | A major.
