# Rock songs and guitar solos in a MAJOR key

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [October 10, 2011, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-songs-and-guitar-solos-in-a-major-key/599129 "2011-10-10T00:06:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jaledin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Jaledin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaledin)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2011, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-songs-and-guitar-solos-in-a-major-key/599129/41 "2011-10-16T21:49:24Z")

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I (grudgingly) admit you’re right **pulykamell** – I don’t know where I got my information, but my intel seemed good at the time!

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**Author:** ![zombywoof](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/9e8a1a/32.png) [@zombywoof](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zombywoof)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2011, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-songs-and-guitar-solos-in-a-major-key/599129/42 "2011-10-16T22:54:31Z")

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> [@Jaledin](#):
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> Maybe. You wouldn’t call a fourth a major or minor, though,

Unisons, fourths, fifths, and octaves are so-called “perfect” intervals, and you’re right, would not be referred to as major or minor…if lowered or raised the resulting interval would be called “diminished” or “augmented”.

(Minor intervals lowered a half step are also “diminished” - as in a diminished seventh - and major intervals raised a half step are also called “augmented”)

There is some method to the madness…

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