playing in all keys

[Sannysan1908]

when i started play i want to play in a key that other musicians don't really play in. I love play in the key of B, but i also can pay in E, Ab, A, Gb, C#, Eb, and  who don't known how to play in C, F, and G

but i with you chevonne, i'm still learning, you not their are some musicians been playing for over 20 years and they will tell you that they're is learning.


WOOOW

I Definitely can agree with you on this --- I'll still get the shivers when playing in the Key of E and A -- I just stay with standard Chording!! 

[Ramar]

Y'all ever hear COrnell Thigpen play that shout in E natural.. That's a bad DUDE

I never heard it, but he must be a real bad dude to smoke a shout in E natural!!!

[twizzle]

i can only play good in Eb and Ab, and im shaky in Db but every key after that i cant play in at all

[T-Block]

Y'all ever hear COrnell Thigpen play that shout in E natural.. That's a bad DUDE

E NATURAL?  WOW, I can barely play the basic shout in that key, and keep it up.  That is a bad dude!!!

[bishopcole]

That's what I've been told too. I am a geek though so, I decided to write down a song that I know that's easy to me and then I transposed it on paper until I had it written out in every key. Then I went to the keyboard and started to play it in what I call my "trouble keys"....now I am atleast able to play something in every key. I am trying to do that on simple songs first and then I'll go up the food chain.. Everyone calls me a geek for doing this but if you want something bad enough, you'll do whatcha gotta do to get it.....can I get a AMEN!! **runs to the organ to hit that Bb shout**

You've got to be kidding me.....

Well can't I joke a little bit?   AND THATS A REAL RAPP!!!!  Bishop Cole

[tkeys86]

i got the main church keys down, and so they my favs, but i love keys of B, E, etc. for a different sound... to ppl who hear Ab & C# all the time, it is refreshing to hear something different

[chevonee]

i got the main church keys down, and so they my favs, but i love keys of B, E, etc. for a different sound... to ppl who hear Ab & C# all the time, it is refreshing to hear something different

I agree that people r tired of the same ole same ole....I just wish I could play better in those keys. I do ok in the key of B but not in shouting music though  For some reason shouting music has puzzled me...

Does anyone play shouting music in the keys of B, E, F, or A...??

[hammondboy]

I can play shoutin' music in all keys but when in play it in B,A,D i just play the basics

[chevonee]

I can play shoutin' music in all keys but when in play it in B,A,D i just play the basics

There are some licks and runs that I can do in other keys but those particular keys give me a very hard time. I'm confident though that with more practice using those keys, that I'll eventually get better.

[gatooor1]

If we all want to master this craft that we have been bleesed to learn and use for the glorifcation of GOD.  Lets all go back to the basics.  Pick up that sheet music and learn to read all over again.  I have been playing for some 20+ years and I find it very benificial when I can sit down and tackle a hard classical peice and then transform it to a fabulous gospel.  That is truely the way to be versitile and learn all the keys.  Think of your ochestra's as a lead keyboardist you read a dirctors copy and every instrument on their has different instramentation so you get a lot reading done in just a short session.  Sit down and site read in all these different keys and you as well as I will learn to master them to his pleasure.

[Drymar]

TheBig listed letter names of tones in the minors in NATURAL minor, which agrees with the key signature and shares the pitch vocabulary of the relative major. Or in syllable terms (solfeg), majors go do re mi fa sol la ti do, and minors go la ti do re mi fa sol la.

But the minor used by far the most is HARMONIC. It's seventh tone is raised a half tone orf half step, making it closer to the top or upper tonic, and creating that "snake-charmer" gap between the sixth and seventh tone, and of course (this is why it is called harmonic) giving us a MAJOR DOMINANT chord!

So, for example, the pitches in C minor would be C, D, Eb, F, G, Ab, B, C.

[PianoWizard]

Welcome to the LGM family "gatooor1"....Be Blessed.

PianoWiz...

[PianoWizard]

Welcome to the LGM family "Drymar".....Stay Blessed.

PianoWiz...

[h313w]

hey that's a good move on those relative majors and minors chief. I ain' mad at ya. almost looked like my lessons i give 'round Detroit    Hey Bishop you're everywhere !!!

[bishopcole]

hey that's a good move on those relative majors and minors chief. I ain' mad at ya. almost looked like my lessons i give 'round Detroit    Hey Bishop you're everywhere !!!

YEP, I AM..... AND THATS A RAPP!!!   Bishop Cole... in Z NATURAL!!!  

[Maestro87]

Try learning the progressionso of the songs rather than learning a whole song.  With progressions, they can be transposed rather easily into other keys.  I am not saying it will be a 5 minute process (unless you really are good at transposing that quickly) but it does help when you have a limited time to learn a song.

If you know how far the next chord is from the previous one and its tonality, you can zoom through transpositions and modulations with ease (once you practice at it)