08-08-2012, 06:29 PM
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carpe musicam
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Originally Posted by Janszoon
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You can laugh all you want, I said what I said not relying on wikipediae. Plus, I said ' they are the only band I know to ever use an Augmented chord.' I didn't say emphatically they are the one and only band to use an Augmented chord. And wiki kinda backs up what I said that augmented chords are 1.) "rare" in Rock, 2.) The Beatle used them, and 3.) some people like to hear an augmented chord, because there are a few songs listed that were hits that had them.
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Examples of popular music songs featuring the augmented chord include its introductory use in Chuck Berry's "School Days", Aaron Neville's "Tell It Like It Is", The Beatles' "Oh Darling!", after intros in Gene Pitney's "Town Without Pity", Beach Boys' "The Warmth of the Sun", Joe Cocker's "Delta Lady", at the end of the bridge in Patience and Prudence's "Tonight You Belong to Me", The Caravelles' "You Don't Have to Be a Baby to Cry", The Beatles' "From Me to You", The Dave Clark Five's "Glad All Over", and Martha and the Vandellas' "Dancing in the Street".[3] The augmented chord harmonizes the downbeat at the beginning of the verse in the song Seems Like Old Times (song).[citation needed] Other examples of the augmented chord include its use as a chromatic passing function over the first degree, the fifth rising to ♯5 then 6 harmonized as IV, as in Jay and the Americans' "Some Enchanted Evening", Lesley Gore's "It's My Party" (I—I+—IV—iv) (see also minor major seventh chord), Herman's Hermits' "There's a Kind of Hush" (continues to ♭7 harmonized by Im7), by ii Roy Orbison's "Crying", followed by 6—♭6—5 motion in "Crying", The Guess Who's "Laughing", Dave Clark Five's "Because" (verse: I—I+—vi—Im7...ii and cadence on V+), The Monkees' "Tapioca Tundra" (I—I+—vi, and V+ after bridge).[3] Though rare, the augmented chord occurs in rock music, "almost always as a linear embellishment linking an opening tonic chord with the next chord," for example John Lennon's "(Just Like) Starting Over" and the Beatles' "All My Loving".[2] Thus with an opening tonic chord an augmented chord results from ascending or descending movement between the fifth and sixth degrees, such as in the chord progression I—I+—vi.[2]
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