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Studio

Song · 1976

Classic

Hotel California

Artist
Eagles
Released
1976
Guitar
Don Felder & Joe Walsh
  • Arpeggios
  • Solo
  • Harmonized guitars

What makes the part famous

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

  • Arpeggios

    The notes of a chord played one after another instead of strummed together.

  • Solo

    The passage where the guitar steps forward and sings on its own, phrase after phrase.

  • Harmonized guitars

    Several guitars play the same line at different pitches, in harmony.

Hotel California 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
B minor
Chords
Bm · F# · A · G · D · Em · G#m

The progressions that come back

    1. Bm
    2. F#
    3. A
    4. G
    5. D
    6. Em
    7. F#

The chords and their fingerings

  • Bm
    B minori · Tonic7fr134
  • F#
    F♯ majorV · Dominant6fr1432
  • A
    A majorbVII · Dominant5fr1342
  • G
    G majorbVI · Subdominant7fr1432
  • D
    D majorbIII · Tonic10fr1342
  • Em
    E minoriv · Subdominant7fr×1342
  • G#m
    G♯ minorvi · borrowed6fr××1342

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

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