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toddt
Feb-21-2005, 1:02pm
I am wanting to play this in the group I'm in but no one can agree if it is E major or E minor. I think it is in E major. What do you think?

AlanN
Feb-21-2005, 1:27pm
It's neither and it's both.

SternART
Feb-21-2005, 2:03pm
That sounds a bit like "Frank"

Scotti Adams
Feb-21-2005, 2:10pm
..yea..can you be more vague? http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

Charlie Derrington
Feb-21-2005, 3:49pm
A part em, B part E major.

But Alan is correct. It's really modal in nature.

Charlie

MWM
Feb-21-2005, 3:55pm
E minor. It's a melancholy song and deserves that sound. Another song that falls into the same major/minor question: I am the Man, Thomas. I do that one in the minor also - Dm.

AlanN
Feb-21-2005, 6:47pm
Em, you say? Don't tell Dewey Farmer that, he'll up and kill you with his 'in your face' G#-B double stop...ouch http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

Mike Bunting
Feb-21-2005, 7:35pm
I like it in E major, love the crunch with the flatted third.
Mike

JimRichter
Feb-21-2005, 9:41pm
I'm more inclined for EMajor and approach it has a blues piece. However, I asked Mike Compton this very question a couple weeks ago and he said Eminor. Now, the one thing we agreed about is that when comping, it's really best just to leave the third of the chord out all together. I do that repeatedly with modally top tunes like Shady Grove, or in blues songs where the major/minor thing is really ambiguous.

If you listen to the Mountain Stage recording of it, you can hear Tater Tate approaching it as a major song. The blue notes against the major chord are so much different than minor pentatonic notes against a minor chord. I personally prefer the major.