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Song · 1984

Cold Shot

Artist
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble
Released
1984
Guitar
Stevie Ray Vaughan
  • Riff

What makes the part famous

The techniques to work on to play it, each in one sentence.

  • Riff

    A short, catchy figure repeated through the song: the part everyone recognizes first.

Cold Shot chords

What the studio found on the isolated guitar of the recording: the key and the chords, with fingerings that flow from one to the next.

Key
D♭ major
Chords
Db · Abm · Gb · Db7

The progressions that come back

    1. Db
    2. Abm

The chords and their fingerings

  • Db
    D♭ majorI · Tonic4fr×1234
  • Abm
    A♭ minorv · borrowed4fr134
  • Gb
    G♭ majorIV · Subdominant4fr××1243
  • Db7
    D♭ seventhV7/IV · secondary dominant4fr×134

Automatic analysis: it can get a chord wrong, and your ear has the last word.

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