I Bought a Flat Guitar Tutor

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I Bought a Flat Guitar Tutor is a song by 10cc appearing on their 1977 Deceptive Bends album.

The song is quite short and simple and often thought of as a novelty piece amongst fans. The lyrics to the song are all puns for musical terminology. Whenever Eric Stewart or Graham Gouldman sing the name of a note the note is played as part of the music to the song. The chart below attempts to explain the complex idea.

• I bought A = A major (A C# E)
• [A] flat = A Flat major (Ab C Eb)
• [A flat] diminished = A Flat diminished (Ab Cb Ebb)
• Responsibility (responsibilitE)= E Major (E G# B)
• You're de ninth = D9 (D F# A C E)
• Person to see = C Major (C E G)
• To be suspended = Bsus4 (B E F#)
• by a seventh = A7 (A C# E G)
• [a seventh] major catastrophe = A Major 7th (A C# E G#)
• It's a minor = A minor (A C E)
• point, but Gee = G major (G B D)
• [but gee,] Augmented = G augmented (G B D#)
• [Gee, augmented] by the sharpness = G sharp augmented (G# B# D##)
• See (C) = C Major
• Ay (A) = A Major
• to be (B) = B Major (B D# F#)
• in a = A Major
• [in a] flat = A flat
• by the sea = C Major