Originally Posted by animarorecords
Chay,
I've never heard Romanian folk music like Doina before, so I can't judge whether this song accurately captures its atmosphere, but it's a very relaxing piece of music.
The way the atmosphere changes when the saxophone solo starts, and then changes again with the guitar solo, is brilliant.
The chord progression is also cleverly done, and I thoroughly enjoyed listening to it.
The video's storyline is also enjoyable.
Best regards.
Shigeki Adachi

Thank you so much, Shigeki. One of the things I'm very grateful to BiaB for is that from when I first began using it I found myself using chords I'd not normally play on guitar as mainly from the late 60s to early 80s I was predominantly songwriting and as my vocal range is limited I only used chords I could sing along with. A few months ago via researching the tuning of the Andean charango I was surprised to see that some strings were tuned to 4ths and 5ths and I've never used either in chords before, then non sequitur I discovered that the English (I think originally French) lullaby "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" is an example of perfect 5ths, so I incorporated the lullaby into an instrumental in which I was using 4ths and mostly 5ths. That carried on into my next 2 instrumentals, after which I wanted to do a doina (even if not a perfect one) using similar instrumentation, which led to this (though the previous 3 are all better). The chords I used came from studying the structures in classic doinas - nearly all are in C - and again I use chords I'd never have previously played on guitar. Not only 5ths but such as flat 6ths and 7ths, plus flat major 7ths. I'd never have played those on guitar before.
In April 2023 I created a video for "Nadia's Doina" by Georghe Ralescu which has a balalaika ensemble behind the flute lead and I posted it on my YouTube channel - it's the most beautiful doina I've ever heard - and I posted it on my YouTube channel, but I can't paste the link here as the forum admin delete non-BiaB links.

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