TwoNotesSolo
Student Of The Blues
Chords are E D, A and the Chorus adds B
Griff always says when you have two major chords a step apart they are the IV V usually, so that would make D and E be the IV and V making the root A.
But soloing in A minor sounds like crap to my ear, A Major sounds better but still off, like you 're playing the wrong song even though it's not dissonant. E Major pentatonic is the solo key that sounds best to me.
So that makes the progression of the verse I bVII IV in E Major
so then googled for I bVII IV expecting to find nothing because I made it up/was confused, and it turns out it is a "real" progression, there is even an entire TrueFire course on it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcdhh8G13PM
So is it in the key of E right?
The E major pentatonic holds all the notes of the E Mixolydian scale which is a relative of A Major though. So should I think of it as E Mixolydian? the only difference between E Mixolydian and E major is the 7th I think, and the D natural fits and the D# doesn't, so is it better described as a song in the E Mixolydian mode, and either E Major pentatonic or E Myxolidian scales will be great for solo?
Then there is that B chord. I think if it were E Mixolydian the B would be minor? So is the key E major in the end? that B would be major in E.
AAaaarg!
I know I says, let's Google for sheet music and see what the key signature is:
some are transposed, but most sheet music I see in the google previews appear to have four sharps. that would be E major! (E Myxolidian would share the key signature of A Major, or 3 sharps)
So sheet music tells me this song is in E Major ?!?!?!?!
Chris, you worry too much you say, just Google what key is "Sympathy for hte Devil" and sites like inwhatkey.com will give you the answer, most of them will also give you the tempo! bliss!
inwhatkey says the key is .... A Major
themodedecoder.com says... E Major
Notediscover.com says... A
Who knew that a 4 chord song (even just the first 3) would give me such as headache.
What say you?
Back to playing the E Mixolydian and E Major blues scale over Mick's rhythm track, because they sound good to me...
Griff always says when you have two major chords a step apart they are the IV V usually, so that would make D and E be the IV and V making the root A.
But soloing in A minor sounds like crap to my ear, A Major sounds better but still off, like you 're playing the wrong song even though it's not dissonant. E Major pentatonic is the solo key that sounds best to me.
So that makes the progression of the verse I bVII IV in E Major
so then googled for I bVII IV expecting to find nothing because I made it up/was confused, and it turns out it is a "real" progression, there is even an entire TrueFire course on it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcdhh8G13PM
So is it in the key of E right?
The E major pentatonic holds all the notes of the E Mixolydian scale which is a relative of A Major though. So should I think of it as E Mixolydian? the only difference between E Mixolydian and E major is the 7th I think, and the D natural fits and the D# doesn't, so is it better described as a song in the E Mixolydian mode, and either E Major pentatonic or E Myxolidian scales will be great for solo?
Then there is that B chord. I think if it were E Mixolydian the B would be minor? So is the key E major in the end? that B would be major in E.
AAaaarg!
I know I says, let's Google for sheet music and see what the key signature is:
some are transposed, but most sheet music I see in the google previews appear to have four sharps. that would be E major! (E Myxolidian would share the key signature of A Major, or 3 sharps)
So sheet music tells me this song is in E Major ?!?!?!?!
Chris, you worry too much you say, just Google what key is "Sympathy for hte Devil" and sites like inwhatkey.com will give you the answer, most of them will also give you the tempo! bliss!
inwhatkey says the key is .... A Major
themodedecoder.com says... E Major
Notediscover.com says... A
Who knew that a 4 chord song (even just the first 3) would give me such as headache.
What say you?
Back to playing the E Mixolydian and E Major blues scale over Mick's rhythm track, because they sound good to me...