OMG WTF is this chord??
Okay, musical peoples on my f'list, I come to you on bended knee once more.
There's a fair few tabs out there for 'Bad Romance', and none of them have got it right, to my ears.
The verse: sounds like a continual unbroken Am chord. Some tabs throw in a Dm or a quick C-G progression to give it a little variety (C-G7 to my ears), but that sounds hokey to me. Anyone know of some better replacement chords?
The chorus: this is the heart of the problem. Most of them have the progression down as F-G-Am-C, which is okay for the first half (though I'd add a C7 at the end right before you go back into the F, just for show-offy shits and giggles).
The second half sounds more complicated to me, though. I hear: F-G-G7-Em-Am...or even better, in place of the Em, a funky freaky chord that I have no name for and cannot find anywhere online. On the ukulele the notes go B D G# B - it looks kind of like you're trying to play a normal diminshed chord backwards.
HELP WHAT IS THIS CHORD AND WHAT IS IT DOING IN THIS SONG??
Ahem. Anyway, musical peoples, do you hear something different? I feel like there should be a buffer chord in there between the Em / mystery-backwards-G#dimished-whatever-the-fug-it is and the Am, especially right before it goes into the whole 'rah-rah-ah-ah-ah' bit again, so I'm cheating and tacking an extra C note onto the Am to make it sound just a little different. WHAT CAN I DO TO MAKE THIS BETTER? Going from Em-mystery-chord into C just sounds awful, so I don't.
The bridge: there is no way on God's green earth that that is an Am chord over the 'walk walk fashion baby' bit. A poor simple Am could not remotely do the kind of atonal backflips those notes are doing. I sense it is some hideous deformed beast of a chord, probably outlawed by the early church fathers, but my music-fu is nowehere near advanced enough to decipher it.
HELP?
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It is at times like this that I heartily wish my public schools had had a music theory class