Can somebody please tell me what key this is in?

[colcifer]

Did you ever try transcribing it?

[hgiles]

Bb minor (dorian).

[megafiddle]

Originally Posted by colcifer

Did you ever try transcribing it?

No, just listening to bass notes and trying to hear the chords. Part of the problem
with the chords is that they're not familiar progressions, and part is that the recording
is not real clear.

[Da Bassics]

Originally Posted by MarkMgibson

This song is quite simple if just play over the changes (unlike the last key sig debate), I picked up a guitar and played through those changes, and Ab was the obvious choice. Try sticking to a single key, and just using the scales of that key. Ab- major scale, blues scale, major pentatonic scale - work perfectly over that song. Try doing it with Cm or Bbm and good luck. The song doesn't even have a minor feel in my opinion, but you know what they say about opinions.

u can play some of the notes in Cm pattern backwards but its Ab and i play G above the a flat too in the shuffle


what notes are in the bassline you play?

[Da Bassics]

Originally Posted by colcifer

Did you ever try transcribing it?

how?

[Da Bassics]

Originally Posted by hgiles

Bb minor (dorian).

how n the world u get this?!

[bassybill]

Originally Posted by Da Bassics

i had one bassist tell me this year it was in g sharp

It sounds like he understands (either theoretically or intuitively) the way the progression is working in each section, or at least where "home" is.

G# does exist as a theoretical key (theoretical because it has eight sharps), but the enharmonic equivalent Ab would almost always be used instead, except in very exceptional circumstances.

[Da Bassics]

Originally Posted by bassybill

It sounds like he understands (either theoretically or intuitively) the way the progression is working in each section, or at least where "home" is.

G# does exist as a theoretical key (theoretical because it has eight sharps), but the enharmonic equivalent Ab would almost always be used instead, except in very exceptional circumstances.

thats whats up how long u been playing?

[Da Bassics]

Originally Posted by MarkMgibson

This song is quite simple if just play over the changes (unlike the last key sig debate), I picked up a guitar and played through those changes, and Ab was the obvious choice. Try sticking to a single key, and just using the scales of that key. Ab- major scale, blues scale, major pentatonic scale - work perfectly over that song. Try doing it with Cm or Bbm and good luck. The song doesn't even have a minor feel in my opinion, but you know what they say about opinions.

thank u. I found this out a while back.

[Kirk Bryant]

Thank God I found this thread...again..I took a quick listen to this again and I can't believe I said Bbmin sorry it was late I was beering it up or....... etc. whetev it is deffinitly Ab and I can't believe I said Bb sheesh.....why I otta!........... Mark/DrB are completly correct. It is in Ab and the solution/riddle is that it never resolves to the one chord, therefore the confusion. We are so accoustomed to western music resolving to one and it's unusual when it is hidden (in plain site) it is easy to miss!

still can't believe I missed with my first glance. damn !

[Da Bassics]

is it possible EL tuned down a half step?

[Da Bassics]

?

[MarkMgibson]

Originally Posted by Da Bassics

is it possible EL tuned down a half step?

I think so.