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Faithfully (song) " Faithfully " is a song by American rock band Journey, released in 1983 as the second single from their album Frontiers. The song was written by keyboardist Jonathan Cain. It peaked at number 12 on the Billboard Hot 100, giving the band their second consecutive top-twenty hit from Frontiers.
The song is played in the key of E major at a tempo of 118 beats per minute. The vocal range is E 4 –C# 5. [7] The chord progression, played by the piano in the introduction and continued throughout most of the song, is eight chords long, following a I–V–vi–IV–I–V–iii–IV progression.
Tonic substitution is the use of chords that sound similar to the tonic chord (or I chord) in place of the tonic. In major keys, the chords iii and vi are often substituted for the I chord, to add interest. In the key of C major, the I major 7 chord is "C, E, G, B," the iii chord ("III–7"[11]) is E minor 7 ("E, G, B, D") and the vi minor 7 ...
The following open-tunings use a minor third, and give a minor chord with open strings. To avoid the relatively cumbersome designation "open D minor", "open C minor", such tunings are sometimes called "cross-note tunings". The term also expresses the fact that, compared to Major chord open tunings, by fretting the lowered string at the first ...
Majorand minormay also refer to scales and chords that contain a major thirdor a minor third, respectively. A major scaleis a scale in which the third scale degree(the mediant) is a major third above the tonicnote. In a minor scale, the third degree is a minor third above the tonic. Similarly, in a major triador major seventh chord, the third ...
Major/minor compositions are musical compositions that begin in a major key and end in a minor key (generally the parallel minor), specifying the keynote (as C major/minor). This is a very unusual form in tonal music, [1] [2] although examples became more common in the nineteenth century. [3]
Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin'. " Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin' " is a song by American rock group Journey released as a single in 1979 from the album Evolution. Lyrically, the song is about a woman who is cheating on her boyfriend, the narrator, but at the end of the song the woman's lover is cheating on her.
The Ballade No. 4 in F minor, Op. 52 is a ballade for solo piano by Frédéric Chopin, completed in 1842 in Paris. [1] It is commonly considered one of the masterpieces of 19th-century piano music. [2] Of the four ballades, it is considered by many pianists to be the most difficult, both technically and musically.