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Song · 1983

Going Home: Theme of the Local Hero

Artist
Mark Knopfler
Released
1983
Guitar
Mark Knopfler
  • Melody

What makes the part famous

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

  • Melody

    The guitar plays a tune, the way a voice would: every note has to sing.

Going Home: Theme of the Local Hero 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
D · G · A · F#m · Bm

The progressions that come back

    1. D
    2. G

The chords and their fingerings

  • D
    D majorI · Tonic2fr×1432
  • G
    G majorIV · Subdominant213
  • A
    A majorV · Dominant2fr×14
  • F#m
    F♯ minoriii · Tonic××13
  • Bm
    B minorvi · Tonic×1342

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

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