It’s a delightful sensation to be watching a new Adam Neely video and then being startled by hearing my own name. A commenter says, “he just humiliates you with terminology while looking through pages of his thick clever books and then casually quotes some random guy on the internet like yeah whatever.” That random guy is ME, show some respect.
Anyway, this excellent video starts with the seemingly simple question of what key a classic Jimi Hendrix tune is in, and encompasses a wide range of music theory topic before engaging with one that’s close to my heart: blues tonality. Adam previously interviewed me for his video about cover songs in rap, and he also wrote the foreword to Electronic Music School, coming this summer from Oxford University Press.
Thanks for the link to an extraordinary video. I knew Billy Roberts, and he was very happy with he Jimi Hendrix version.
Circle of fifths !!!
Blues scale in E, roll around 2 beats ,C,G,D,A, THAN 4 BEATS E.