Layla outro solo

[MikeNiteRail]

I do not play guitar. I play harmonica. There, I said it. We band added a keyboard player and we're going to do the song Layla. I was asked to cover the outro solo, which I think is in C major.

My issue is, I try to jam a long to several different versions of the tune and I feel like some of the notes are wrong/missing.

Does Duane stick with the C major pentatonic? I missing something somewhere. I tried several different harps in different positions, but nothing seemed to fit.

This is incredibly frustrating as I tend to be able to figure things out on my own. It is a good reality check for me!

Thanks for any advice on how to pull off a Duane-ish but not note for note solo.

 

[ksuaggie]

I believe it's more of a C mixo or more accurately, C blues, you might try an F harp to get the Bb, or even a Bb harp to get really bluesy with the flatted 3rd.

 

[MikeNiteRail]

That might make sense. I tried it on an F harp, but only using the Major pent. I also tried it in 1st, 11th, and 12th positions.

1st worked pretty well. The blow bends on 8 and 9 gave it a bit of a mixo feel which would jive with what you're saying...11th and 12th are so major that maybe they were too major sounding?

Thanks!

 

[buddastrat]

I love playing the outro piano chord progression on guitar. It's beautiful. It is in C but there's a few chords that modulate. I don't have my guitar here but I think there was a Bb7 in it. so you need to be careful over certain chords.

 

[StanG]

Bb7#11, the E natural makes it distinctive. Lydian dominant.

 

[marcher5877]

Also, isnt the whole thing out of tune? Like the piano is flat, so Eric and Duane just tuned to that, but it isnt completly flat...


I don't honestly know, but have heard rumours about it for years.

 

[MikeNiteRail]

Bb7#11, the E natural makes it distinctive. Lydian dominant.

So Duane is playing....C D E F♯ G A B♭ C? What about F and B? Are you talking the whole solo, or just over the Bb7#11?

 

[buddastrat]

Well some of those high slide notes are awfully annoying to me. I don't really listen to it because of those, (sorry DA) it's always bugged me. Such a sweet progression tho'.

 

[Austinrocks]

Bb7#11, the E natural makes it distinctive. Lydian dominant.

I called it Bb7 add b5, and looked at as a blues chord. and the outro as key of F, but you end up with the same chord.

kind of interesting how the same note a #4 or #11, for those checking for completeness or b5 can imply so totally different musicial styles, lydian or blues.

 

[lawl Dave]

If it helps at all, the studio version was sped up so the pitch is between C and C#, so it'd be a pain to jam along with.

 

[Austinrocks]

If it helps at all, the studio version was sped up so the pitch is between C and C#, so it'd be a pain to jam along with.

it was easy in the OLD DAYs of records, mine had a speed adjuster so I could get things into standard tuning easily.

 

[John Thigpen]

If it helps, I have this for a chord progression:

C C/E F Repeat several times, then

C C/E F Fm6 C

Then it goes to the Am section, (the bass walks down C B A)

Am Dm G C
Am Dm Gsus (bass walks down from G)

Repeat from beginning.

I think that's all of it, but I don't have a guitar handy.

You play everything in the key of C, except you need an A flat for the Fm6 chord. That run is Ab C D E D C Ab C.


John