Timeline for What are the best criteria for naming a key?
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| Apr 29, 2018 at 15:52 | comment | added | skinny peacock | @Tim- At open mics and Jams anyone who wishes to join in just needs to put their name on the list. Therefore all skill levels become part of the performance, and there will be players that don't really understand what they're doing when they do it. To expect anything more might be wishful thinking. The tricks I was referring to were licks, patterns, arpeggios, etc., as distinguished from the process of key discovery. You've mentioned you've got your own methods, I'd probably enjoy reading about what those might be. | |
| Apr 29, 2018 at 15:32 | comment | added | skinny peacock | @Laurence Payne- Please pardon the way I express myself, what I was meaning to say was I've discovered the tonic of the key and probably already figured whether it is Major or Minor enabling me to then focus on any modal aspects of the piece. And I recognize that as the song moves forward I must exercise due diligence to be aware of any changes or surprises that may be in store for me, and there will always be surprises won't there. | |
| Apr 29, 2018 at 12:21 | comment | added | Laurence | In the first bar you can suss out a scale that fits the chord(s) in the first bar. That's all. It's possible but quite unlikely that the same scale will fit the chords in the next bar. Let alone the whole song. | |
| Apr 29, 2018 at 6:29 | comment | added | Tim | What I'm after is what those tricks are! At open mics, I've given up asking keys, as they're not always forthcoming - or correct. But they're generally figured out after two or three bars, but not always! | |
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| Apr 29, 2018 at 0:02 | history | answered | skinny peacock | CC BY-SA 3.0 |