The Godfather Theme- help needed!

[blues_rock_axeman]

I just listened to the amazing MP3 of The Godfather Theme that a member of this forum posted on the Yahoo Briefcase, and I wondered if this person (or any other!) knew the chords and the scales that were used in the song.

  Any help much appreciated!

[Bahad]

Here is mine:

http://members.lycos.co.uk/gnrtrials/godfather.zip

Scale D Pentatonic Minor

Chords:

Dm - Am - Dm - Gm - C - Dm - Bm - Dm

C - Dm - Gm - Dm

[blues_rock_axeman]

Thanks guys  

I'd figured most of it, I just needed the chords for backing and the scale for improv.

I'm gonna go learn that for a gig! The advantages of a keyboard player in a band are huge!  

Thanks again  

[Miz]

Isn't it the natural minor, rather than the pentatonic?

[jrs2001_99]

I just listened to the amazing MP3 of The Godfather Theme that a member of this forum posted on the Yahoo Briefcase, and I wondered if this person (or any other!) knew the chords and the scales that were used in the song.

  Any help much appreciated!

Hey man, I think that was my Godfather theme you heard in the briefcase. Like has been said by others, I learned it by watching Slash play it on the Tokyo videos. The fast part in my rendition is pure improv however (pretty much where the actual theme gets lost in a flurry of notes), using a mixture of D natural minor, D harmonic minor, and the D blues/pentatonic scale.

The chords beind it are as follows:

Dm   Gm   Dm

Dm   Gm   C

C              Dm

C              F

Gm           A

And repeat.

Sorry about the confusing chord sequence shown above, I can't be arsed with tabs. I played the chords on my guitar using a clean sound with shitloads of reverb and delay, to give a bit more of a pretentious sound. The lead guitar is an Epiphone Les Paul using the rythym/neck pickup for the whole thing, with the tone set to about 5 or 6 I think.

Good Luck!