First post here: Hard love

My first blog. My first post.

Trying to learn to play J.J. Cale on the guitar, and maybe bass too. By ear. And I am not very good at it, but hope to get better.

"Hard love" is the first song, as I found a vid on the the net (thanks to Mike of www.jjcale.net !). The video is one's live from 1993/94. He plays his white Casio stratocaster-lookalike with Floyd rose bridge. Christine plays an ES-335 (why does she nowadays play a Variax, I love the ES-335s!)
http://video.mytaratata.com/video/iLyROoaftacg.html

So watching it through, I think:
- he capos first fret and the key is Fm
- main chords are Fm (122111) and Eb (xx4232). The main bit just goes back and forth between these two. The chords can be played like this too: x-8-10-10-9-8 and xx4232, which makes the transition basically going up and down the fretboard and lifting 4th finger.
- the other chords are C and Bb. So to look at it theoretically: basically with Fm-Bb-C we are playing a Minor blues in F.
- Christine plays a fill bit up on around the 8th fret Fm (i.e. Am up 8 frets). I think she is going between Em and Fm chords on the B and E strings and the ending with fretted G string.
- JJ's solo is basically playing the 6th, 9th and 11th and maybe 4th fret on the B string. So that's like the root, third, fourth and flat seventh of the F minor. I may try to tab the solo later.
- So the solo is a simple minor pentatonic noodle, but more like on a single string insteaf of box. As a common pattern box, it'd be the 1st box up on 13th fret: D string 13th and 15th fret, G string 13th and 15th fret.
- Will have to check the original recording too, to hear differences between that and this live version. Christine's bit have to be clarified too.

That's it, my first! :D