[Pete B.]

Just wondering (just for the fun of it) if I/you could come up with a full set of GD related songs in the Key of Am.

Loser
West LA
Mississippi Halfstep
Jack-a-Roe
Let It Grow
Watchtower
The Thrill Is Gone-Garcia/Grisman
Just a Little Light-Brent
Gotta Serve Somebody-Dylan

There must be some others...

[Rev_Roach]

looks like you got most of them, or most the easy ones at least.

Black Peter is a maybe. The strummed chord is A7, but the single-note lines clealy emphasize the C note (if slightly bent). Kind of a bluesy without being the blues thing.

[astroman99]

well these aren't normally in Am but could be....
Spoonful
Smokestack
The same thing

[tigerstrat]

Black Peter is squarely in the key of D.


Whiskey In The Jar...

[Tennessee Jedi]

Jack-A-Roe Dudes?

[astroman99]

Jack-A-Roe Dudes?

Tennesee, is this a different song then Jack-A-Roe, is this the sequel..Jack-A-Roe-Dudes,
better get out your Bifocals

[Tennessee Jedi]

oopsy.

[mttourpro]

Slipknot is the only GD tune other than those listed I could think of in A minor.

Don't Let Go is in A but the jam goes minor...I'm curious as to why you'd want to do a whole set in A minor? Though, it would be interesting to do that and see if anyone in the crowd even noticed....

[Mick]

The only one I thought of off the top of my head was Mississippi half step. If I went to see a band and they played the set list Pete B. put up, I am SURE I would NOT notice that all are in the same key. In fact, I doubt anyone would notice unless they had been playing those songs themselves for a while.

Maybe it is just the relatively little experience that I have but I have a low percentage hit rate of listening to a song and thinking "is that in the key of ___?" Some exceptions of course, almost all of KT Tunstall's stuff is in either D or G, so I can often guess correctly which of those a particular song is in, but I am occasionally wrong there too. Not fair if I happen to be holding a guitar when I make my guess as playing a sharp C while listening will give it away every time. Even though I have heard Brokedown hundreds of times and can hear it playing in my head whenever I want, I have never seen the music and at the moment I wouldn't even have a guess what key it is in.

[BlobWeird]

I dont think I would notice it. The only way Id notice is maybe if they were segued.

[milobender]

Just to be contrary... I'm sure I WOULD notice... I play for a guy that will regularly play 2, 3, even 4 songs in a row in the same key; even with similar chord structures. Makes me nuts

Brian

[b weird]

Don't forget:

Johnny B. Goode and
Not Fade Away

Aren't these song in A/Am also?

Oh, C.C Rider, Takes a Lot to Laugh, and Little Red Rooster are in A also.

[Pete B.]

This all came about at a jam two weeks back.
I had been thinking about Loser, and that I had been playing it wrong, but it gave me an idea to try.

So when I hit the ending of Loser, I sang "well I got no chance of losin'" 3 times with that little walkdown from C, on the last one ending on a D with the word "...Tiiime..." (with 4 beats on the word "Ti-ii-ii-iime" then went to an Fmaj7 for 4 beats (the "idea"), then closed on the Am, letting it ring.
Then for no reason, I kicked off West LA, and it made for a cool sounding transition.
They are close in tempo (and both in Am), but different enough in groove to take you to a different place, with regard to the "feel".

This got me to thinking about other Am songs (for no other reason than I love little GD tidbits like this).

The first four were as far as I got in the first thinking:
Loser
West LA
Mississippi Halfstep
Jack-a-Roe

The others I thought of a little later. This morning as i was thinking about it again and looked up:
Let It Grow
Just a Little Light-Brent
Gotta Serve Somebody-Dylan

I like to do "Theme" sets sometimes (this would be the Am Theme set).
Thanks for thinking on this with me.
Pete B.

[High Peaks]

Is Miss 1/2 Step in Amin?? For some reason i thought it was in G or C. Hmmmm.. I'll have to look at that one, its been a while. Anyway, Slipknot isn't on that list.

[High Peaks]

I also seem to remember Bobby apologizing on some older shows about playing two songs in a row in the same key. I think the key was D and the second song was Ramble on Rose.