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[Ed DeGenaro]

It's actually not that tough. Maybe we could start a little basic theory thread one day.

Or folks could just ask for an explanation.

 

[Ed DeGenaro]

I am the hotdog in your mom's hallway.

damned autocorrect

Isn’t everyone

 

[Ed DeGenaro]

I wanna know what they call the 6th chord played in Smoke on the Water. What's that all about, in 'theory-speak?'

Seeing that the intro is a Gm riff based on the Gm Blues scale and harmonised in 4th.

And a chord takes 3 notes to be a chord, the one borrowed chord is a half step approach to C and it’d be Db5.

Now going by how this thread started with referring a pool of notes to the parent scale instead of a tonal center the by the OPs logic Smoke On The Water would not be in G minor since the note are from Ab major/G locrian.

 

[Ed DeGenaro]

That's not what I meant. I know how to name chords.

I mean, like how they're discussing chords in terms of a 'home key', and calling them a iib, or backdoor dominant (whatever the heck that is), or a tritone, etc.

If you really wanna make a case for it it’d be an incomplete Db7 which is a tritone sub for a secondary dominant (G7) leading to C.
Alternatively if you see it incl the G bass note it’ll Db/G which makes G7susb9b5

 

[HomespunEffects]

Now going by how this thread started with referring a pool of notes to the parent scale instead of a tonal center the by the OPs logic Smoke On The Water would not be in G minor since the note are from Ab major/G locrian.

Finally, someone is talking sensibly.

I will be bringing up the difference between key and scale with my guitar teacher when we start back up in a couple weeks. Thanks.