Thursday, 15 December 2011

We are the Reason chords by Avalon

This is really random but I spent quite a lot of time figuring out the chords for "We are the Reason" as arranged by Avalon. Here's the YouTube video:



They changed key 4 times!! And the beautiful but irritating thing is, many key chords (excluding the many transitional colour chords) used in the song are not the usual family chords! To make things worse, the bridge is in the key of Eb major -.-"

I'm not familiar with the family chords of Eb major...as in, I don't know the chords by hard so I gotta refer to my own guitar theory notes to see what are the family chords! HAHAHA! But to no avail...

So after about 30mins of playing around with my guitar and 30mins of intent listening did I manage to hear out those weird colour chords.


Yup, here it is! Anyway, here's the key progression in the song:


Verse 1 & 1st chorus: C major
Verse 2 & 2nd chorus: G major
2nd chorus to Bridge: Eb major
Bridge to 3rd chorus: D major


1st chorus means: The 1st time the chorus is sung
2nd chorus means: The 2nd time the chorus is sung...


WE ARE THE REASON
Avalon                                        Key: G, Eb
Christian Classic
                  G
AS LITTLE CHILDREN
          D/F#                                 Em
WE'D DREAM OF CHRISTMAS MORN
        Dm7                            C                G/B               Am
AND ALL THE GIFTS AND TOYS, WE KNEW WE’D FIND
               B/D#            Em
BUT WE NEVER REALIZED
              D                                   A/C#
A BABY BORN ONE BLESSED NIGHT
                         C                                            D
GAVE US THE GREATEST GIFT OF OUR LIVES


Chorus:
G                                             Am
WE ARE THE REASON THAT HE GAVE HIS LIFE
D                                                       C                           G          D/F#
WE WERE THE REASON THAT HE SUFFERED AND DIED
         Em                          G+/D#
TO A WORLD THAT WAS LOST
                 D                       A/C#
HE GAVE ALL HE COULD GIVE
       C                      D                     G
TO SHOW US THE REASON TO LIVE


AS THE YEARS WENT BY
WE LEARNED MORE OF OUR GIFTS
THE GIVING OF OURSELVES, AND WHAT THAT MEANS
ON A DARK AND CLOUDY DAY
A MAN HUNG CRYING IN THE RAIN
BECAUSE OF LOVE
BECAUSE OF LOVE


Bridge (In Eb major):
   G# (Ab)                                               D# (Eb)
I FINALLY FOUND THE REASON FOR LIVING
             D#m (Ebm)                             C# (Db)
IT’S IN GIVING EVERY PART OF MY HEART TO HIM
    C#m (Dbm)                    G# (Ab)
IN ALL THAT I DO EVERY WORD THAT I SAY
             A# (Bb)                                D# (Eb)
I’LL BE GIVING MY ALL JUST FOR HIM
         A
FOR HIM


Bridge to Chorus: Chorus in key of D
Bracketed chords: Enharmonic representation of the non-bracketed chord


Yup, this is a superbly-out-of-this-world arrangement and performance by Avalon. They're probably the best contemporary Christian artist in this generation...as the YouTube video uploader claims. I kinda agree with him/her.


Not only is the music arrangement beautiful...Their voices are also superbly awesome! Their vocal ranges are crazy. I wish I can sing like them. Haha!


Anyway, it's near Christmas! So yup, this song is an awesome song to remember God's incarnation in the form of a man, Jesus Christ.


Happy Birthday in advance Jesus! :) Love you, always and forever :D

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