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I was listening and then I started playing Magnolia by J.J. Cale, Very simple chords Fmaj7 ~ Cmaj7 ~ the whole piece … then in the cut Am ~ G then back to Fmaj7 ~ Cmaj7. I am literally fascinated by this simple piece in its harmonic structure but JJ Cale made it a masterpiece, a beautiful piece. I wanted to know which scales can be played apart from the F LIDIA scale and the A EOLIA minor scale? Thank you
Carlo Laezza
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Here you go Carlo, give your ears a musical treat https://www.activemelody.com/forums/topic/magnolia-jj-cale-cover/
..Billy..
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Hi Billy just seen this must have missed it first time round. Certainly worth the link.
Thanks for posting.
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The chords are all part of C major, so that’s an obvious choice for a scale.
Messing around with it, it sounded really good to but in the Bb over the C chord, and the Eb over the F chord, treating them for the solo like dominant chords instead of major7s.
So you might thing C mixolydian on the C chord. Or think maybe of a C minor blues scale.
Another interesting reduction is the E minor pentatonic. It all works, but they aren’t exactly the common tones you would hear.
On the G Am section, it sounds like a shift to a minor, which is not much of a shift. I would mostly just try to emphasize the chord tones here. You could play with any of the A minor scales, but natural minor fits the easiest.
(None of this is stuff that I think about when soloing. But sometimes I mess with those sorts of restrictions when practicing, to help me hear a certain sound.)
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