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Rock’s All Time BEST GUITAR SOLOS! Pt 13 #shorts #guitar #guitarsolo #classicrock


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Rock’s All Time BEST GUITAR SOLOS! Pt 13 #shorts #guitar #guitarsolo #classicrock

“25 or 6 to 4” is a song written by American musician Robert Lamm, one of the founding members of the band Chicago. It was recorded in 1969 for their second album, Chicago, with Peter Cetera on lead vocals.[1]

Composition
In a 2013 interview, Robert Lamm said he composed “25 or 6 to 4” on a twelve-string guitar with only ten strings—it was missing the two low E strings—and that he wrote the lyrics in one day. The band first rehearsed the song at the Whisky a Go Go.[2]

Lamm said the song is about trying to write a song in the middle of the night. The song’s title is the time at which the song is set: 25 or 26 minutes before 4 a.m., phrased as, “twenty-five or [twenty-]six [minutes] to four [o’clock],” (i.e. 03:34 or 03:35).[3][4] Because of the unique phrasing of the song’s title, “25 or 6 to 4” has been interpreted to mean everything from a quantity of illicit drugs to the name of a famous person in code.[5]

The song’s opening guitar riff has been compared to chord progressions and riffs in other songs. In the opinion of writer Melissa Locker:

…the opening guitar riff from Green Day’s “Brain Stew” bears a striking similarity to the opening stanza of Chicago’s “25 or 6 to 4.”[6]

LA Weekly’s music editor, Andy Hermann, names it “The Riff” and describes it as follows:

It’s a descending five-chord pattern, typically played as power chords over four bars, with the last two chords sharing the last bar. The most common variant of it goes from A minor to G to F sharp to F to E, although it can also be played as Am-G-D-F-E or even Am-G-D9-F♯-F-E…[7]

Hermann details the riff’s similarity to the chord progression in Led Zeppelin’s version of “Babe I’m Gonna Leave You” by Anne Bredon, which came out a year before “25 or 6 to 4”, and the similarity of that chord progression to one in George Harrison’s song “While My Guitar Gently Weeps”, which came out even earlier. He labels “Brain Stew”, released in 1996, as “derivative” by comparison to “25 or 6 to 4”.

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