The Eagles Hotel California is a classic rock song.
Writing credits for the song are shared by Don Felder (music), Don Henley, and Glenn Frey (lyrics). The Eagles' original recording of the song features Henley singing the lead vocals and concludes with an extended section of electric guitar interplay between Felder and Joe Walsh.
With the capo on the 7th fret the Bm chord becomes an Em followed by B7 Dsus2 A9 C G Am7 B7
This serves as the progression for intro, verse and Outro which the guitar solo is played over
In this guitar lesson / tutorial we look at the Beatles song from their Abbey Road album.
The main riff is based on a Dm7 chord the verse based on an D to A to G chord shuffle rhythm
The chorus B5 B5/A G5 A5 chord progression
The solo and outro lead guitar is simply based on D Minor Pentatonic
John Lennon played rhythm guitar and electric piano and sang the lead vocals, Paul McCartney played bass, George Harrison played lead guitar and Ringo Starr played drums.
The songs kicks off on harpsichord and has layered vocals of Paul McCartney George Harrison and John Lennon.
According to John Lennon, the song's close musical resemblance to the first movement of Ludwig van Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata was no coincidence: "Yoko was playing Beethoven's 'Moonlight Sonata' on the piano ... I said, 'Can you play those chords backwards?', and wrote 'Because' around them.
Some lovely use of chords starting on Dm D#m7b5 G# A C#m A7 A13 D/F# Daug
This progression is intro verses and outro
When the bridge switches to F# it lifts the song before moving to G#7
