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"Scenes from an Italian Restaurant" by Billy Joel

Strong Songs

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The Sus Chord Progression in Rock and Roll

The section where Joel is singing really cooks through this chord progression it's all centered around a G. Seghmar the whole time on bass he starts really pulling and doing these kind of octave jumps which adds so much to the overall feel of the song. Richie Kanata is throwing so many classic tenor sax rock sax looks if they're ever gonna play any rock and roll music because back in the day this was the job of the saxophone player I mean Clarence Clemens in the E Street band is kind of the classic.

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