Timeline for How to select a key-signature for a song
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| Oct 19, 2016 at 12:54 | comment | added | Tim | @NeilMeyer - merely understanding, and knowing key signatures is only a part of it. Different keys work differently on different instruments, and the fingering is harder in some keys. There's also the range to consider. A piece in a certain key won't be achievable on every instrument - hence different keys. Vocal tessitura has a bearing in a similar manner. | |
| May 17, 2015 at 12:42 | comment | added | Laurence | Commercial songwriters, producers and performers aren't concerned with the niceties of tuning systems. They place a song in the key that best suits the vocalist. Once beyond intermediate student level there are no "hard" keys. | |
| Sep 15, 2014 at 18:08 | answer | added | John Wu | timeline score: 3 | |
| Nov 2, 2013 at 16:57 | answer | added | Neil Meyer | timeline score: 0 | |
| Nov 2, 2013 at 16:50 | comment | added | Neil Meyer | If you understand key signatures well then Ab minor should be no harder to play than C major. | |
| Jun 14, 2013 at 1:30 | answer | added | Whimusical | timeline score: 3 | |
| Sep 23, 2011 at 5:12 | answer | added | Ash Machine | timeline score: 0 | |
| Sep 23, 2011 at 2:43 | answer | added | user1044 | timeline score: 3 | |
| Sep 22, 2011 at 19:02 | comment | added | Andrew | There are a lot of good answers already, so I'll just add one thing. A song you hear on a recording may not even be performed in the key you hear on the recording. Post-production, especially in certain styles, will sometimes raise the pitch a little to increase energy both by raising the tempo and through the implication of a higher tessitura requiring more energy. This does not happen so much in reputable classical recordings, but I understand it is very common in some pop styles. | |
| Sep 22, 2011 at 1:01 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackMusic/status/116678569870102528 | ||
| Sep 21, 2011 at 15:58 | vote | accept | MikeD | ||
| Sep 21, 2011 at 15:32 | answer | added | pka | timeline score: 0 | |
| Sep 21, 2011 at 15:17 | answer | added | user28 | timeline score: 13 | |
| Sep 21, 2011 at 15:14 | answer | added | slim | timeline score: 27 | |
| Sep 21, 2011 at 15:05 | answer | added | xpda | timeline score: 2 | |
| Sep 21, 2011 at 14:57 | history | asked | MikeD | CC BY-SA 3.0 |