Cocaine (JJ Cale's) - E or A?

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vizviz Frets: 10646
edited June 2015 in Theory
E
Roland said: Scales are primarily a tool for categorising knowledge, not a rule for what can or cannot be played.
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
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  • BrizeBrize Frets: 5619
    edited June 2015
    JJ Cale's, you mean?
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  • vizviz Frets: 10646
    That's what I said. :)
    Roland said: Scales are primarily a tool for categorising knowledge, not a rule for what can or cannot be played.
    Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
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  • mike_lmike_l Frets: 5700

    Claptons is E, IIRC JJ Cales is D

     

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  • frankusfrankus Frets: 4719

    A, defo ... E only works if you raise the second C (leading into the E) by a whole tone.

    Even then some people will tell you it's not hardcore enough:

     

    If you got bad news
    You wanna kick them blues, codeine

     

    A sig-nat-eur? What am I meant to use this for ffs?! Is this thing recording?
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  • vizviz Frets: 10646
    Sugar cane is plenty for me.
    Roland said: Scales are primarily a tool for categorising knowledge, not a rule for what can or cannot be played.
    Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
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  • GuyBodenGuyBoden Frets: 733
    F# Lydian neurodevelopmental minor Mode 2
    "Music makes the rules, music is not made from the rules."
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  • Phil_aka_PipPhil_aka_Pip Frets: 9794
    Play something else. There's far better tunes.
    "Working" software has only unobserved bugs. (Parroty Error: Pieces of Nine! Pieces of Nine!)
    Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
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  • mike_lmike_l Frets: 5700
    GuyBoden said:
    F# Lydian neurodevelopmental minor Mode 2

    Is that the posh way of saying E?

    Ringleader of the Cambridge cartel, pedal champ and king of the dirt boxes (down to 21) 

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  • GuyBodenGuyBoden Frets: 733
    mike_l said:
    GuyBoden said:
    F# Lydian neurodevelopmental minor Mode 2

    Is that the posh way of saying E?
    No, A
    "Music makes the rules, music is not made from the rules."
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  • vizviz Frets: 10646
    Lollll
    Roland said: Scales are primarily a tool for categorising knowledge, not a rule for what can or cannot be played.
    Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
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  • mike_lmike_l Frets: 5700
    GuyBoden said:
    mike_l said:
    GuyBoden said:
    F# Lydian neurodevelopmental minor Mode 2

    Is that the posh way of saying E?
    No, A

    The Lydian neurodevelopmental minor Mode 2 takes the root note down by 2 semitones, so E.

    You must be getting confused with the Locrian mentalistmajor 7 which makes everything in A.

    Ringleader of the Cambridge cartel, pedal champ and king of the dirt boxes (down to 21) 

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  • vizviz Frets: 10646
    I just gave you your 3000th fret for that Mike
    Roland said: Scales are primarily a tool for categorising knowledge, not a rule for what can or cannot be played.
    Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
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  • TTonyTTony Frets: 27345
    mike_l said:
    GuyBoden said:
    mike_l said:
    GuyBoden said:
    F# Lydian neurodevelopmental minor Mode 2

    Is that the posh way of saying E?
    No, A

    The Lydian neurodevelopmental minor Mode 2 takes the root note down by 2 semitones, so E.

    You must be getting confused with the Locrian mentalistmajor 7 which makes everything in A.

    Mornington Crescent !
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  • MatthewShredderyMatthewShreddery Frets: 861
    edited June 2015
    It's I b7. Or D. Everything is in D (or G)
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  • mike_lmike_l Frets: 5700
    viz said:
    I just gave you your 3000th fret for that Mike

    Thank you.

    I LOL'd you, WOW and Wisdom seemed more wrong than a LOL.

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  • Surely, it's in whatever key you play it in?!
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  • I've always preferred E to coke. Never heard of 'A'.
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  • 57Deluxe57Deluxe Frets: 7329
    Eh?
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  • thebreezethebreeze Frets: 2797

    JJ reckoned it was E flat but his memory might have been a bit hazy by 1997.....

     

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  • thebreezethebreeze Frets: 2797
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