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Thanks Trevor, great examples! Mr. Telephone Man sounds to me like bV7(#5), and Love On Top sounds like bV7(b5), so both are actual subV7/IV, vs. bv7 in Sir Duke, but like you I get that same vibe from the strong b5-4 root motion. In Sir Duke there…
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Thanks Frank, and yes to all of that. I think the genius of the Fm7 is that it's a little bit of three different things combined: - At the moment it hits, you think it might possibly be starting a ii-V to D#/Eb, the III of B. (This song being an ho…
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