So, I just got bored so I decided to analyze gravity by John Mayer for a bit because I really love that song(the bored partly may be due to my slight hangover). You know look at the harmony and stuff like that.
Basically the whole verse is G-C which is effectively just I-V (the verse is in the key of G major) but then during the chorus ‘twice as much ain’t twice as good etc’ it shifts to the key of G minor(or technically the second mode of G harmonic minor) and the chords are Am7(where the fifth is implied so not played)-D7-Gm-D#maj7-D7 which would be ii-V-i-VI-V so it resolves back to G when going back to the verse afterwards.
What amazes about this is that something ‘simple’ as switching from major to minor can make a song sound incredibly more interesting. It’s also how I tend to describe genius as far as music is concerned. Take something really simple but do something with it that sounds incredible but no one else really comes up with. The Beatles are probably by far the best example of this. Most of their song don’t sound super conplicated(even though quite a lot especially after like 1967 kinda are pretty complicated and incredibly creative) but to come up with it is just so incredibly hard.
Basically the whole verse is G-C which is effectively just I-V (the verse is in the key of G major) but then during the chorus ‘twice as much ain’t twice as good etc’ it shifts to the key of G minor(or technically the second mode of G harmonic minor) and the chords are Am7(where the fifth is implied so not played)-D7-Gm-D#maj7-D7 which would be ii-V-i-VI-V so it resolves back to G when going back to the verse afterwards.
What amazes about this is that something ‘simple’ as switching from major to minor can make a song sound incredibly more interesting. It’s also how I tend to describe genius as far as music is concerned. Take something really simple but do something with it that sounds incredible but no one else really comes up with. The Beatles are probably by far the best example of this. Most of their song don’t sound super conplicated(even though quite a lot especially after like 1967 kinda are pretty complicated and incredibly creative) but to come up with it is just so incredibly hard.
