In any case, I came up with some chords that sounded right, and I wrote a short post about it on the blog where I document my process. I wrote that I thought it was G A7 Cm G / G A7 Cm Dsus4 D. And then I clicked "publish."
But then I got thinking about it. I don't know my scales as well as I should, but I do know the A major scale and that it contains G#. But when I played what I thought was A7, I was playing A C# E G. That was the whole point of that particular post - just like the bass part in "This Will Be Our Year," the bass part in the middle of "Care of Cell 44" plays a note (G) that is in all of the chords played on top of that note (or at least I think so). So then what I played couldn't be A7 because A7 is A C# E G#.
I looked it up to find that I was actually playing Adom7. This led to the realization that I've been confusing major sevenths and dominant sevenths for pretty much as long as I've been playing them. So this whole experience has told me two things - 1) I need to learn my scales better (or, you know, just learn them in the first place) and 2) I need to learn chord spellings beyond just major and minor.
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