J. Anthony Allen breaks down an Imagine Dragons chord in Ableton Live, removing duplicate octaves and isolating the pitch classes A, E, C, G. He rearranges the notes into root position and checks whether a seventh is present, concluding it's likely absent and attributing the phantom note to an Ableton glitch.
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That and that. And then all this stuff. I don't know what that is. That and let's see. I need those. I'm just trying to find stuff that doesn't start at the beginning. All this stuff. There's another stray one. There's another one. And then our last chord. Oops, I need that note. Probably. Okay, now remember, Ableton isn't perfect at this, so let's go in and look chord by chord. First thing I'm going to do here is I'm going to get rid of octaves of stuff. So this note is an A. So let's see if I have any more A's. There's another A. Let's get rid of that. There's a G. Okay, that's it. Here is an E. Do I have any more E's? There's another E. There's another E. There's a G. So I have A, E, C. There's another C. And here's a G. Now that G strikes me as odd. But let's put this into root position, right? So no inversion. So what that basically means for us, since we don't know what the chord is yet, that means we're going to try to get it into as compact of a way as possible. So let's start moving around octaves. I'm going to jump that up an octave. Let's jump this one up an octave. And that is starting to look like root position, because these are really close together. Now this G doesn't make a lot of sense to me, but if I did, this would be root position. So here's an A pitch, the pitch of A. So what I'm going to do here is if I count up the A scale, and in this case it will be the A minor scale, this would be the root, the third and the fifth, and this would be the seventh. I don't know if I hear a seventh in there. Let me hear this. I don't think that seventh is in there. So I'm going to go without the seventh. I think that was a Ableton glitch. And let's pull this out to be the whole thing. Let's do it for the next chord.