Just been listening to this and figured the chords to be A, F but the 3rd chord im not so sure...is it Eb or maybe Bbminor?? both seem to fit to me

as in

A F Eb or Bbminor
Empty room Empty room..how'm i gonna fill u, how'm i gonna

fill this empty room.


Also the scale seems to be a weird one including all the following notes :A, Bb, C, Db, D, E, F, G?
need some advice/help on that from the more technical amongst u.
thanks

Daf

BTW also figured out the version of "get on up" which was played on the act I tour and sounds pretty cool...if anyone wants me to tab it and post it then orgnote me. peace.
[This message was edited Sun Oct 27 10:08:02 PST 2002 by daf1999]

It seems to me that the song is written in A major and achieves its haunting quality by using strident chords which are oposed to the scale.

I agree it seems to be A then F. However, the third basic chord sounds more akin to Eflat9, rather than Eflat - which would resolve better from F back to A because of the F note retained in the chord as well as Dflat / C sharp in the chord. I'm not sure if it's exactly right but it sounds closer than the Bflat minor you suggested.

Let me know what you think.

This is interesting, because live (during the celebration) he played the song with slightly different chords than on the recorded version I know (from 95)

the version you talk about is A F and Eflat7 (if I remember right, I'm not near my keyboard now)
The Celly version is C# A F#minor7
[This message was edited Wed Oct 30 1:20:15 PST 2002 by Heavenly]

Eflat7 dont sound right to me Heavenly. The 2 chords i mentioned sound better to me

daf1999 said:

daf, I'm not near any keyboard for the next few days, so I'm just throwing this from memory. and also, I play by ear, and have no knowledge in theory, so I might be wrong about the name of the chord, but I play along with the song, and it sounds like it's the right one. D#7 is the chord I meant.
did you try the other chords, for the celly version?
[This message was edited Thu Oct 31 2:31:47 PST 2002 by Heavenly]

hmmm i tend to play it on guitar like this
capo #1 fret

Aflat E D(g flat in bass) Aflat

seems to work in the 95 version

the earlier piano demo

seems more like
A F C7 Bmin A
[This message was edited Thu Oct 31 15:34:02 PST 2002 by servantsofpuas]

Been listening to the new download version from npgmc and the chords in this cool version are C# major, A major and F#minor.