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El Condor Pasa was written by Daniel Alomía Robles in 1913, based on an Andean folk tunes. It was famously covered by Simon and Garfunkel in 1970.
This is the beginning of the famous melody. Simon and Garfunkel sang "I'd rather be a sparrow than a snail" on this phrase.
This image shows you my arrangement for the first bit of the tune. The Dm9 and G13 together makes a II-V cadence for a C chord. The next chord is Am, but I put that cadence because C is a very similar chord to Am.
This is the last chord played in the arrangement. I call this Am69(11) (pronounced A minor six nine eleven). The chord tone of the 5th which is E isn't present in the voicing, but that chord tone can easily be omitted because the perfect 5th is strongly present in the overtone series of any note.
This is the beginning of the famous melody. Simon and Garfunkel sang "I'd rather be a sparrow than a snail" on this phrase.
This image shows you my arrangement for the first bit of the tune. The Dm9 and G13 together makes a II-V cadence for a C chord. The next chord is Am, but I put that cadence because C is a very similar chord to Am.
This is the last chord played in the arrangement. I call this Am69(11) (pronounced A minor six nine eleven). The chord tone of the 5th which is E isn't present in the voicing, but that chord tone can easily be omitted because the perfect 5th is strongly present in the overtone series of any note.