Whenever the Eagles play this chord sequence in concert B minor / F-sharp major / A major / E major / G major / D major / E minor / F-sharp major they don’t have to play more than three chords before thousands of nonmusician fans in the audience know that they are going to play “Hotel California.” And even as they have changed the instrumentation over the years, from electric to acoustic guitars, from twelve-string to six-string guitars, people recognize those chords; we even recognize them when they’re played by an orchestra coming out of cheap speakers in a Muzak version in the dentist’s
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