Strudelify
Sugar Magnolia cover art

1973 · American Beauty

Sugar Magnolia

Grateful Dead

KeyA majorTempo154 bpm
0:00/0:00
// Sugar Magnolia — Grateful Dead
// 154 bpm, 4/4, key A major. Source: mcgill.
// Generated by strudelify. One cycle = one bar.
setcpm(154/4)

const chords = arrange(
  // intro (10 bars)
  [10, "<A [A@2 D A] A [E@2 A@2] A [A@2 D A] A [E@2 A@2] A [E@2 A@2]>"],
  // verse (10 bars)
  [10, "<A [A@2 D A] [A@2 G@2] [E@2 A@2] A [C#m@2 F#m@2] E [D@2 A@2] A [E@2 A@2]>"],
  // verse (10 bars)
  [10, "<A [A@2 D A] [A@2 G@2] [E@2 A@2] A [C#m@2 F#m@2] E [D@2 A@2] A [E@2 A@2]>"],
  // bridge (10 bars)
  [10, "<D [G@2 D@2] D [A@2 D@2] D [G@2 D@2] D [E@2 A@2] A [E@2 A@2]>"],
  // interlude (10 bars)
  [10, "<A [A@2 D A] A [E@2 A@2] A [A@2 D A] A [E@2 A@2] A [E@2 A@2]>"],
  // verse (10 bars)
  [10, "<A [A@2 D A] [A@2 G@2] [E@2 A@2] A [C#m@2 F#m@2] E [D@2 A@2] A [E@2 A@2]>"],
  // verse (10 bars)
  [10, "<A [A@2 D A] [A@2 G@2] [E@2 A@2] A [C#m@2 F#m@2] E [D@2 A@2] A [E@2 A@2]>"],
  // chorus (12 bars)
  [12, "<[A@2 G@2] [D@2 A@2] [A@2 G@2] [D@2 A@2] [A@2 G@2] [D@2 A@2] [A@2 E@2] [G@2 D@2] D [D@2 A@2] [A@2 E@2] [A@2 ~@2]>"],
  // bridge (10 bars)
  [10, "<D [G@2 D@2] D [A@2 D@2] D [G@2 D@2] D [E@2 A@2] A [E@2 A@2]>"],
  // verse (13 bars)
  [13, "<A [A@2 D A] A [A@2 D A] B [B@2 E B] B [F#@2 E@2] [D@2 A@2] [E@2 B@2] [A@2 E@2] B [B@2 ~@2]>"],
  // outro (24 bars)
  [24, "<B [B@2 E@2] B [F#@2 E@2] B [B@2 E@2] B [F#@2 E@2] B [B@2 E@2] B [F#@2 E@2] B [B@2 E@2] B [F#@2 E@2] B [B@2 E@2] B [F#@2 E@2] B [B@2 E@2] B [F#@2 E@2]>"],
)
const bassline = arrange(
  [10, "<a2!3 [e2@2 a2@2] a2!3 [e2@2 a2@2] a2 [e2@2 a2@2]>"],
  [10, "<a2!2 [a2@2 g2@2] [e2@2 a2@2] a2 [c#2@2 f#2@2] e2 [d2@2 a2@2] a2 [e2@2 a2@2]>"],
  [10, "<a2!2 [a2@2 g2@2] [e2@2 a2@2] a2 [c#2@2 f#2@2] e2 [d2@2 a2@2] a2 [e2@2 a2@2]>"],
  [10, "<d2 [g2@2 d2@2] d2 [a2@2 d2@2] d2 [g2@2 d2@2] d2 [e2@2 a2@2] a2 [e2@2 a2@2]>"],
  [10, "<a2!3 [e2@2 a2@2] a2!3 [e2@2 a2@2] a2 [e2@2 a2@2]>"],
  [10, "<a2!2 [a2@2 g2@2] [e2@2 a2@2] a2 [c#2@2 f#2@2] e2 [d2@2 a2@2] a2 [e2@2 a2@2]>"],
  [10, "<a2!2 [a2@2 g2@2] [e2@2 a2@2] a2 [c#2@2 f#2@2] e2 [d2@2 a2@2] a2 [e2@2 a2@2]>"],
  [12, "<[a2@2 g2@2] [d2@2 a2@2] [a2@2 g2@2] [d2@2 a2@2] [a2@2 g2@2] [d2@2 a2@2] [a2@2 e2@2] [g2@2 d2@2] d2 [d2@2 a2@2] [a2@2 e2@2] [a2@2 ~@2]>"],
  [10, "<d2 [g2@2 d2@2] d2 [a2@2 d2@2] d2 [g2@2 d2@2] d2 [e2@2 a2@2] a2 [e2@2 a2@2]>"],
  [13, "<a2!4 b2!3 [f#2@2 e2@2] [d2@2 a2@2] [e2@2 b2@2] [a2@2 e2@2] b2 [b2@2 ~@2]>"],
  [24, "<b2!3 [f#2@2 e2@2] b2!3 [f#2@2 e2@2] b2!3 [f#2@2 e2@2] b2!3 [f#2@2 e2@2] b2!3 [f#2@2 e2@2] b2!3 [f#2@2 e2@2]>"],
)

// chords · gm_piano
const keys = chord(chords).voicing().s("gm_piano").gain(0.8)
// bass · gm_electric_bass_finger
const bass = note(bassline).s("gm_electric_bass_finger").gain(0.9)
// drums
const drums = s("[bd hh] [sd hh] [bd hh] [sd hh]").gain(0.8)

stack(keys, bass, drums)

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