{"id":260,"date":"2004-06-24T11:52:24","date_gmt":"2004-06-24T11:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=260"},"modified":"2016-09-18T18:50:05","modified_gmt":"2016-09-18T18:50:05","slug":"dean-deleo-is-a-genius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=260","title":{"rendered":"Dean DeLeo is a genius"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No wonder the chords to <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/?p=253\">Cast A Shade<\/a><\/b> were familiar; the first three are very much like the verse chords to <i>Stone Temple Pilots &#8211; Plush<\/i>! He too took a descending chromatic line (D to B) and used chords around them.<br \/>\n<font face=\"Courier New\"><br \/>\ne|-3-3-3-3-<br \/>\nB|-3-2-1-0-<br \/>\nG|-0-3-2-0-<br \/>\nD|-0-0-0-0-<br \/>\n<\/font><br \/>\nI&#8217;m not even going to try to figure out how to spell each chord, but they are pretty funky inversions. Then, he does a descending line again, from G to E, like in my song! Of course, I also do a B to D on two octaves after that, so I shall smirk proudly in my own chord math. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I swear I was not inspired by Plush; I was inspired by <i>Led Zeppelin &#8211; Stairway To Heaven<\/i> and <i>Kashmir<\/i>. Stairway To Heaven&#8217;s intro riff for one has a descending chromatic bassline. Very neat.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, there are other lesser-known inverted chord mathemagicians, but I shall only proclaim my love for those who made their alternate-voiced chords on radio, like um Stone Temple Pilots, The Who, Led Zeppelin, Incubus and um Eric Clapton to some extent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No wonder the chords to Cast A Shade were familiar; the first three are very much like the verse chords to Stone Temple Pilots &#8211; Plush! He too took a descending chromatic line (D to B) and used chords around them. e|-3-3-3-3- B|-3-2-1-0- G|-0-3-2-0- D|-0-0-0-0- I&#8217;m not even going to try to figure out how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11686,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions\/11686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}