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Song · 1980

I'm Coming Out

Artist
Diana Ross
Released
1980
Guitar
Nile Rodgers
  • Funk rhythm

What makes the part famous

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

  • Funk rhythm

    Tight sixteenth-note strumming, muted strings and short chords, locked to the drums.

I'm Coming Out 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
F major
Chords
F · Bb · Dm · Am · C · G

The progressions that come back

    1. F
    2. Bb

The chords and their fingerings

  • F
    F majorI · Tonic5fr×1432
  • Bb
    B♭ majorIV · Subdominant6fr1342
  • Dm
    D minorvi · Tonic5fr×1342
  • Am
    A minoriii · Tonic5fr134
  • C
    C majorV · Dominant5fr××14
  • G
    G majorV/V · secondary dominant5fr××1243

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

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