Now playing: Imaginary solo on Toto's "Great Expectations" ;-) clip 1 of 2 (comment & analysis below) by Peter Kiebooms. Paused, Muted
Imaginary solo on Toto's "Great Expectations" ;-) clip 1 of 2 (comment & analysis below)
🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸This dark and brooding piece doesn't sound like anything like Toto, now does it...?
Totally love it when they do unexpected things like this!
Let's see what we're dealing with here harmonically:
// Asus2 / Asus2#5 / Gadd9 / Fmaj7b5 /
/ Asus2 / Asus2#5 / F#m7/11 / F7b5 //
So mainly A Aeolian/natural minor with two non-diatonic chords = F#m7/11 which is borrowed from the A Dorian mode and the F7b5 which can't be that easily explained.
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