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What Key is Hey Joe in?

Adam Neely

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It's in E.

That's about it. Thanks for watching!

Blues Tonality
https://www.ethanhein.com/wp/2014/blu...

0:00 Intro
1:17 Part 1 - Chords!
4:02 Part 2 - What Feels Likes Home
7:57 Part 3 - ...it's a little more complicated than that
12:00 Part 4 - Hey Joe is a blues

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20 Comments

@colinedmunds2238 5 years ago

Discussing the physicality of an instrument is such an essential and overlooked element of analysis.

@anonymone453 5 years ago

Music Theorists: It's a little more complicated than that

Any guitarist: It's way less complicated than that

@nextabe1 5 years ago

I like how he says that a little music theory knowledge can be a dangerous thing more than once, because repetition legitimizes.

@santiagoriosarango2086 5 years ago

The fact that you didn't quote repetition legitimizes when speaking about the repeated E chord deslegitimized repetition legitimizes due to lack of repetition

@spearmintt1342 5 years ago

"What key is it in?" "It's on guitar"

@Ss0oUuLl 5 years ago (edited)

I like how Adam is not even trying to look educational anymore, 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. Absolute madman.

@scari_3656 5 years ago

The real purpose of this video is so that Adam can flex on how many books he have

@MMadjansen 5 years ago

So that's where the term "guitar lick" comes from...

@dahahaka 5 years ago

"What Key is Hey Joe in" -Adam Neely

"JOE MAMA" - My brain

@iau 5 years ago

Girls: Like dangerous guys
Me who knows a little bit of music theory: 😏😏😏

@martinisbutik 5 years ago

Theory me: Interesting
Guitarist me: Fuck it, Em pentatonic it is!

@Aimaiai 5 years ago (edited)

I was thinking that, as a guitarist, I literally just play whatever chord kinda sounds cool in the progression im trying to make. Guitars are specifically really good at randomly creating complex key changing progressions because of this.

@classicaltrombone 5 years ago

The Blues: Exists
Tonal Harmony: 😤

@skalpathal 5 years ago

I never thought about it beyond "It's a bluesy song, we can use both major and minor chords and notes". Glad to see my deep harmonic analysis affirmed. :)

@drumset09 5 years ago

There's been a joke going around my musician friends of "it's not wrong, it's jazz!"
Now I'm going to introduce "It's not in a key, it's blues!"

@GoingSpacewardTV 5 years ago

"A little bit of music theory can be a dangerous thing."

I will be forwarding this quote immediately to the person that tried to tell me that "Just the Two of Us" is in the key of C#.

@deadnda 5 years ago

Everyone says "Hey Joe" but no one asks "How's Joe"

@theo5247 5 years ago

This guy have some balls smashing music theory books on a table with a cup of coffee and a piano beneath it.

Respect.

@HardlySimpleFilmsFCX 5 years ago

The fact that guitarists can just easily intuit this answer but musicians from other practices labor over it speaks to how applying musical frameworks out of context can be super misleading. You have to examine the work within the practice it was made.