Re: Jumpin Jack Flash Key


"Derek Tearne" <derek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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CS <catdriver@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Todd H. wrote:
It may simply be among the myriad of recordings out there where the
band tunes a half step down from the standard A440 EADGBE tuning.

Did this come up here in the past (too lazy to google search myself..)
and did anyone ever come up with a valid reason for this practice?

Jumping Jack Flash was recorded a very long time ago. In those days the
final recording sometimes ended up either sharp or flat because the tape
had been sped up or slowed down. This was done for a couple of reasons,
some producers believed that speeding the track up a bit made it sounds
more exciting, or one of the instruments to be overdubbed was sharp or
flat and couldn't be tuned or played in the original key, they wanted it
to fit exactly to a particular length to fit on a single, or the
machinery was broken or sometimes to make it hard for people to learn
the song at home.

So, JJF may well have always been played by the stones in B - like they
appear to play it now - but that particular recording ended up half a
step flat for any of these reasons.

--- Derek

Back in those days, the tape was often sped up or slowed down to make the
song fit in the typical AM radio time slot of two and a half to three
minutes, that's also how the fade to silence at the end of songs came about.


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