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HOW TO PLAY CHORDS LIKE PINK FLOYD PART 1

hroughout a long, glittering career as members of rock’s aristocracy, Pink Floyd have made ambitious use of lengthy chord sequences and surprising key changes. In the first of this two-part Chord Clinic, we go back to the very beginning, borrowing ideas from quirky and original songs from the hallucinogen-fuelled Syd Barrett era, before moving onto the more complex sequences that allowed the band to compose tracks of epic durations and redraw the landscape of rock

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