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Studio

Song · 1983

Let's Dance

Artist
David Bowie
Released
1983
Guitar
Nile Rodgers & Stevie Ray Vaughan
  • Funk rhythm
  • Solo

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.

  • Solo

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

Let's Dance 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
Bbm · Ebm · Db · Ab · Fm

The progressions that come back

    1. Bbm
    2. Ebm

The chords and their fingerings

  • Bbm
    B♭ minori · Tonic8fr××1342
  • Ebm
    E♭ minoriv · Subdominant11fr134
  • Db
    D♭ majorbIII · Tonic9fr1342
  • Ab
    A♭ majorbVII · Dominant8fr1432
  • Fm
    F minorv · Dominant8fr×1342

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

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Same guitarists

  • 1983

    Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble

    • Shuffle
    • Riff
  • 1983

    Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble

    • Solo
    • Bends & vibrato
  • 1983

    Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble

    • Chord melody
  • 1983

    Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble

    • Shuffle
  • 1984

    Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble

    • Solo
  • 1984

    Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble

    • Riff

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