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Full page: [ Ссылка ] | “Gives root to the sensual strums of Coyote, the first track from Joni Mitchell’s 1976 Hejira album – once described by literary academic Dr. Ruth Charnock as “either the most flirtatious song about fucking or the most graphic song about flirting ever written”. Her tuning is essentially ‘Hejira + Open C’ (split, respectively, as: 6-5-4-3 | 2-1str). It forms a 5ths-focused reshuffling of tones 1-5 of the major scale (1-2-3-4-5 as 1-5-2-4-1-3: hear how the vocals weave in and out of this odd geometry). Ideal for wide chord extensions, with four perfect adjacent intervals bringing a full, robust quality, ripe for chordal explorations and more...”

• Coyote | C-G-D-F-C-E | Semitone pattern (i.e. 'what to press'): 7/7/3/7/4

“Joni chose Coyote as the opening track of the Hejira album. A 2016 feature on the Music Aficionado blog outlines the song’s origins: “[Joni] decided to take a road trip on her own, an ideal opportunity to reflect and meditate as she drove through highways and farmlands…She stated that ‘This album was written mostly while I was traveling in the car‘”. Coyote “describes her brief relationship with [author and playwright] Sam Shepard, whom she met at the Rolling Thunder Revue, the concert tour that Bob Dylan assembled with a travelling caravan of musicians…[Joni] joined the tour…in late 1975 – and it remained with her as a lingering memory of ego clashes infused by pharmaceuticals and cocaine...“ More info: [ Ссылка ]

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