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Psychedelic Flight & Euphoria
A Mixolydian road trip structure (I - ♭VII - IV - I). By introducing the flattened ♭VII degree, it sidesteps the classical dominant pull and breathes open-highway freedom.
Sweet Home Alabama (Lynyrd Skynyrd), Hey Jude final (The Beatles).
“Psychedelic Flight & Euphoria”, a CifraLab proposal
D, C, G and D is the progression CifraLab proposes for a “Psychedelic Flight & Euphoria” feel.
“Psychedelic Flight & Euphoria” runs at 98 beats per minute, so each beat lasts 612 milliseconds. If each chord takes one bar of four beats, the full cycle lasts 9.8 seconds. With D as the centre, its degrees are I, ♭VII, IV and I. D holds D, F# and A. In C you hear C, E and G. G holds G, B and D.
D presses three positions and leaves string 4 open, leaving strings 6 and 5 unplayed. C rings with two strings open and three fretted positions, leaving string 6 unplayed. G presses three positions and leaves three strings open.
From D to C, every note changes. From C to G, G stays, but no fretted position repeats. G and D share D, though the hand changes shape.