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Studio

Song · 1981

Unchained

Artist
Van Halen
Released
1981
Guitar
Eddie Van Halen
  • 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.

Unchained 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
C♯ minor
Chords
C#m · A · E · B · G# · F#

Here the guitar mostly plays solos and riffs: these chords are the ones its lines outline, enough to back it or improvise over it.

The progressions that come back

    1. C#m
    2. A
    3. C#m
    4. E

The chords and their fingerings

  • C#m
    C♯ minori · Tonic4fr×1342
  • A
    A majorbVI · Subdominant×123
  • E
    E majorbIII · Tonic4fr×1432
  • B
    B majorbVII · Dominant4fr××14
  • G#
    G♯ majorV · Dominant4fr1342
  • F#
    F♯ majorIV · borrowed1342

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

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