What Key Is Goodbye Pork Pie Hat In

The Music Key Finder bot has determined that the song Goodbye Pork Pie Hat by Charles Mingus is primarily in B Major.

What key is goodbye pork pie hat in. I would have said Eb- but after searching online to confirm this Ive come away even more confused as Ive found sites that say its F- Bb- and Ab-. Goodbye Pork Pie hat is a 12-bar form consisting of three four-bar phrases in the key of F minor. And it was in a totally different key.

The Real Book seems to have adapted this key and with its popularization it may be played in F minor as well. A majority of his tunes in there are in the wrong key and the changes are wrong. And he had written these very complicated changes that were nothing like most blues laughs or any kind of tune that anybody had ever played.

It was totally unique to that particular composition. DownloadView Transcription PDF Author Notes. Pork Pie Hat by Jeff Beck written by Charles Mingus from the album Wired.

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Dont say goodbye to hip hats tilted in the style of a soulful era the pork-pie hat that Lester dug swirling in the sound of sun saxes repeating phrase o phrase repeating bluely. Anybody care to clear this up for me. Its a 12 bar blues can be read as 3 sections of 4 bars each.

The relative key is G Minor. The melody tends to outline an F blues scale. When viewed as four-bar phrases the first and second phrases of the melody are not as similar to each other as youd expect in a traditional blues.