Do you have a favourite key while composing? Major or minor?

opg · Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 6:29 am Post subject:

Hold on- you're talking about a tritone, right?

People are confusing major and minor chords with intervals.

Surprised

Antimon · Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 6:42 am Post subject:

I would argue that a d doesn't sound like an f transposed 9 halftones up (did I get that right?) even if you used the same kind of barré-chord (is that what it's called? I mean when you put your index finger across the neck and the other fingers in typical e chord position) for both. The sound of a guitar string changes dramatically as you move the finger towards the middle, due to the resonating overtones when your at a simple fraction (i.e. 1/4, 1/3, 1/2 of the string) and possible other things as well.

Similar things probably happen in most "real world" instruments.

Sorry about the overuse of parentheses Smile

/Stefan

opg · Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 6:45 am Post subject:

Keysandslots

There's a perfect 5th, diminshed 5th and augmented 5th, but no such thing as a major or minor 5th. The same thing goes for the 4th. A tritone is b7 (flat seven) and major 3rd.

For piano players, if you wanna do some quick cool blues, use a standard jazz-ish 12-bar blues progression, play the tritones with your left hand, and the blues scale with your right hand. For example, left hand, in C, would be one bar of C7 (E and Bb), one bar of F7 (A and Eb), two bars of C7, two bars of F7, one bar of C7, one bar of A7 (G and C#), one bar of D7 (F# and C), one bar of G7 (F and B), two beats of C7, two beats of A7, two beats of D7 and two beats of G7. Over all of that play, in any order, play only the notes of a C blues scale (C, Eb, F, F#, G, Bb).

Randy

mosc · Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 8:11 am Post subject:

No'am, great to have you here.

Ahh, guitars - tuning them is a lot harder than most people think, unfortunately. Very Happy

seraph · Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 8:28 am Post subject:

No'am · Joined: Sep 14, 2006 Posts: 3 Location: Israel

Keysandslots

You can tune a piano but you can't tunafish. Sorry, I've always liked that one.

Randy

Uncle Krunkus · Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 6:02 pm Post subject:

seraph · Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2006 12:30 am Post subject:

Uncle Krunkus
in your previous posts you used 5 emoticons (all different). very thoughtful of you. I get easily bored seeing an emoticon more than once inside the same post. Cool

K · Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2006 2:03 am Post subject:

Uncle Krunkus · Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2006 2:19 am Post subject:

No, BEX was an old Australian headache powder which contained a barbituate. It was a classic "mother's little helper" during the 50s and 60s.

Seraph, when I'd finished typing that rant in, I read over it and thought it seemed a bit histrionic. But I don't like editing myself, so I sprinkled it with emoticons as a way of taking the edge off it a bit. I'm really a gentle giant at heart.

seraph · Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2006 3:35 am Post subject:

ThreeFingersOfLove · Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2006 10:15 pm Post subject:

Antimon · Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 3:51 am Post subject:

opg · Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 6:31 am Post subject:

seraph · Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2006 12:27 am Post subject:

Antimon · Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2006 3:28 am Post subject:

DJ Carter · Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 9:23 pm Post subject:

I have a confession to make ... I am a seriously bad keyboard player, in fact I wouldn't even class myself as one Smile

But I am a stable guitarist, so I usually base all my pieces in guitar-friendly keys such as Em, Am, Gmaj, stuff like that.

Altho being as redneck slow as I am with keys, now and then I just resort to good ol' Cmaj Laughing

DJ Carter · Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 9:25 pm Post subject:

Haha wow this post is about to have its first birthday Smile

Acoustic Interloper · Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2007 1:56 pm Post subject:

I don't have perfect pitch, but I do have perfect bitch: an 11 year olf female beagle.

Acoustic Interloper · Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2007 2:10 pm Post subject:

Also, transposing stringed instruments always changes timbre. Instrument body & strings resonate less further up the neck.

I remember reading something Joni Mitchell once said about how Jaco Pastorius' accompaniment was so much better than other bass players with whom she worked, because they always wanted to know the key & changes ahead of time, while she was into experimental tunings and structuring around fingers and ears more than keys and charts. Jaco fit right into that.

Transposing becomes even more disruptive when you're feeding an FX chain that tranposes frequency instead of pitch, i.e., adds instead of multiplies. That seems to be happening with some granular delay I am trying out right now -- it seems to be adding rather than multiplying, thereby changing harmonic relationships -- because as I transpose a bar chord up the banjo neck, the FX become metallic and grating, and when I transpose back down, they sound more 'in key.' Gotta look a little deeper into this. Great way to do tension & release.

kara · Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 4:29 am Post subject:

To answer the original question of this post
I play live (keyboards) in a duo with a femal artist called 'Azell', she plays clarinet & sax. No quess our favourite keys ......

Yes Eb & Bb

k

arcticbeard · Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2007 1:02 am Post subject:

A favourite key? -
No I dont.
I play the notes I want.
I dont like rules. : P

Remember there are no wrong notes - just various levels of Dissonance

Also for those talking about whole tone scales - there are actually only two, as they overlap & repeat.