Should a musician be able to play in any key at any time? It seems a bit ambitious considering there are over 30 keys to be aware of
>>127851065it's the same order of whole and half steps just starting on a different note.
>>127851161What’s the point then
>>127851350well on real intruments some instruments are easier to play in certain keys due to how they are usually tuned etc. And you will also end up with different voicings if you play in different keys on the same tuning.also bass notes will not be heard easily after a certain point (usually starting below E) on some speakers/systems so if you want to drone the root note of the scale in your song with your bass a track in E will sound heavier than one in C. of course you can play E in C but E won't be the tonic in that case so you end up with a different effect. so a lot of EDM ends up playing keys like E-G cause it lets u emphasize the bass. also singing voices. some singers have ranges and timbres that sound more natural or just plain different in different keys. The logic is similar to the bass idea. if your highest good note is the tonic of the key youre playing, that can play a massive role in shaping the song cause u might be able to belt that high note and it will easily fit into a chorus or something.also if you're sampling something and you want to retain the pitch of the sample you might need to figure out and settle on what the key is or at least use a key that the sample works in. and finally having songs in different pitches simply gives the listener some variation, even if the relationships between the notes dont change, the listener can still experience a difference purely based on the overall pitch. its partially why the slowed down reverb thing became popular. it gives them a new experience based on a song they already love
>>127851655Thank you kindly for the education
Most musicians, yeah. Not guitarists. They use shoes and just need to know the root note
>>127851065There's 24 keys if you consider major and minor to be different keys
>>127851898Why is minor a key when it’s just a mode and all the other modes aren’t considered keys?
>>127851804kek
every note has a frequency, similar to how colors of light correspond to a frequency. Transposing a piece of music into a different key is sorta like hue shifting a photo. You might get a subtly different tone & feeling based on which key you choose to write in.
>>127851898>if you consider major and minor to be different keysI don't.
>>127851065>there are over 30 keysnotheres 12keys are different not because the intervals in the scales are different, but because of how they lay across an instruments range. E is a common key for guitar-based music due to it being the lowest note in standard tuning, for ex. meanwhile concert band music is often in flat keys, because many brass and woodwinds are Bb or Eb instrumentssimilar thing to consider when dealing with lead vocals. youre certainly not gonna want to split the octave halfway through a phrase because your singer cant sing high/low enough. so you modulate the key so they can sing the phrases comfortably
>>127851065The only key that matters is the key of lifeThere are no rules
>>127855544>theres 12you're not counting the enharmonic keysi once counted how much there could theoretically be, conisdering all the mode changes and shit and i got 17 (that includes C# and Cb)
>>127855544are you confusing keys with tones? how the fuck are there only 12 key signatures in your eyes?
>>127856114only a sadist would ever write a piece in a key like E#. and while Db and C# are functionally different they sound identical
>>127856310E# and Cb will happen sometimes for music theatre gigs because everyone involved is a giant retard
>>127851065>Should a musician be able to play in any key at any time? It seems a bit ambitious considering there are over 30 keys to be aware ofbasically yesany musician should be playing in a key that best accompanies the singer's voiceinstruments should also be tuned to harmonize again with the singers voice, not being stuck in 440Hz
>>127851959Bc most Western music is based upon the two major and minor modes.You could argue that there are 3 different minor modes, upping the total number of most widely used modes to 4, but really that's just variants of the main one.So really we only use two (in most genres/cases).
