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Song · 1979

We Are Family

Artist
Sister Sledge
Released
1979
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.

We Are Family 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 major
Chords
A · G · D · F · C · Em

The progressions that come back

    1. A
    2. G
    3. D
    4. F
    1. C
    2. A
    3. Em

The chords and their fingerings

  • A
    A majorV/ii · secondary dominant5fr1342
  • G
    G majorV · Dominant5fr××1243
  • D
    D majorV/V · secondary dominant5fr×1234
  • F
    F majorIV · Subdominant5fr×1432
  • C
    C majorI · Tonic5fr××14
  • Em
    E minoriii · Tonic7fr×1342

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

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