Often called the Andalucian cadence, …a popular technique in flamenco and other guitar heavy genres and this whole intro seems to be just an intensely decorated version of it that. The original song was released in 1977 and was written by Don Henley, Don Felder and Glenn Frey. There’s a great guitar solo in the middle that will inspire you to learn the whole piece. You know what let’s drop this E minor seven to get a nice even number of chords and while we’re at it we’ll clean this up to a major which leaves us with one of my favorite chord progressions. Here are the chords you’ll need to play Hotel California in the key of A minor: Am (x02210) (If you don't understand the above image please read our article 'How To Read Guitar Chordboxes In 60 Seconds'. Hotel California is one of those songs everyone knows and it’s a great piece to pull out and play for your friends to get everyone singing along.
He also noted that many of the chords in the intro were decorative that when he broke down to the bare minimum, he located the Andalusian cadence – a walkdown of the i–VII–VI–V notes within the minor scale. A E >Warm smell of colitas rising up through the air G D >Up ahead in the distance, I saw a shimmering light Em >My head grew heavy and my sight grew dim F >I had to stop for the night Bm F >There she stood in the doorway I heard the mission bell A E >And I was thinking to myself this could be heaven or this. Song: Hotel California Written by: Don Felder, Don Henley and Glenn Frey Band: The Eagles Album. So even though it’s not where we expect to go it’s still a pretty solid resolution. The chord structure to Hotel California, which was released in 1976, is remarkably similar to it. Chord tabs for the Eagless song Hotel California.
This is what’s called the deceptive resolution and it works because G major is almost identical to B HOTEL CALIFORNIA CHORDS (ver 7) by Eagles Ultimate-Guitar.Com -Tab Transposed by ear by Callum Boothroyd- CAPO 7 This intro part was best put together on a 6 string as I could.
The verse ends with F-sharp 7 which we said is supposed to go to B minor but the chorus starts with G major instead. The narrator specifically noted the song’s complexity, its unusual chord progression, the key changes, the changing use of dominant and subdominant chords, the harmonic motifs and a concept called “deceptive resolution” Doodling music theorist and musician 12tone, who analyzed the “internet’s favorite song”, did the very same for the iconic Eagles song “Hotel California”.
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