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Title: WHAT KEY?
Post by: keyz28 on August 12, 2005, 12:15:08 AM

What is everybody's favorite NATURAL key to play in? no sharps or flats... just natural key......

Title: WHAT KEY?
Post by: DBG2k5 on August 12, 2005, 06:22:42 AM

Key of F & B

Title: WHAT KEY?
Post by: tri-tonest on August 12, 2005, 07:43:35 AM

key of F

Title: WHAT KEY?
Post by: ddw4e on August 12, 2005, 09:14:53 AM

Definitely F (even though it has 1 flat in it :lol: )

Title: WHAT KEY?
Post by: Muziqmann on August 12, 2005, 11:23:18 AM

I would have to say the key of B, I love it.

Title: WHAT KEY?
Post by: key-wiz on August 12, 2005, 11:29:33 AM

A, B, E and D

Title: WHAT KEY?
Post by: T-Block on August 12, 2005, 11:37:10 AM

C, F, and G.

Title: WHAT KEY?
Post by: Luv2Praise on August 12, 2005, 12:25:13 PM

C, F, G

Title: WHAT KEY?
Post by: B3Wannabe on August 12, 2005, 02:09:19 PM

B then D

Title: WHAT KEY?
Post by: DetroitB3 on August 12, 2005, 02:43:55 PM

A,B,D, F

Title: all of them....
Post by: cakinbro on August 12, 2005, 03:28:07 PM

Honestly, I like all of the natural white keys. But if I had to pick, when I'm playing organ, I like B, C, and D. When I'm playing keys, B, C, D, and A. But I'm not hating on F and G though, LOL.

cakinbro

Title: WHAT KEY?
Post by: musician_organist on August 12, 2005, 03:33:36 PM

I like C...as far as natural white keys, it depends.  maybe F, but that is it.

Title: WHAT KEY?
Post by: RayC on August 12, 2005, 05:08:08 PM

C. D and G

Title: good question
Post by: tario on August 12, 2005, 05:28:35 PM

B,D,E,A sometimes C,G,&F :)

Title: Favorite Key
Post by: bug on August 12, 2005, 05:55:28 PM

My 80 year old mother plays in F.  When she was carrying me, no doubt she played in F.  She taught me the F chord,  the B flat chord, and the C chord.  Then she showed me the first and second inversions of those chords.  I had a harmonic reperitory of nine chords to harmonize a melody.  She explained that the F chord was the home chord, around which all the other chords revolve, but eventually they must come home to F.  This is how I learned what a key was.

Naturally F was my first and favorite key.  I could hear the chord progressions easily in F.

I quickly had to learn C and G to give some variety to my playing.  That's when I discovered secondary dominants.  So I learned how to modulate between they keys of F, C and G quickly.

I soon learned that people in churches get up and sing everywhere. Some singers stay in the key they start in.  Those you can always play melody for and chord out some kind of harmony.  However some singers are all over the place when there is no modulation.  I lay out when I hear this kind of singing.  They are doing their thing.  They don't know what they are doing, and they don't know where they are going.  Naturally I can't read their mind or guess what unpredictable note they might sing next, in this kind of situation.

Over the years I have learned how to play in all twelve keys.  When I first became a member of this august musical community, I was having trouble hearing and feeling harmony and melody in F#/Gb  and B.  After having to take an early retirement do to a lack of music teaching jobs here in Michigan.  I can safely say that I am now comfortable in B as well as F#/Gb.  Long periods of time on my hands helped me to be a better musician.  When I was working I didn't have the time to put in on my instrument.  Knowing what to do intellectually, is not the same as actually applying the knowledge to the instrument where it becomes spontaneous.

brother scott

Title: WHAT KEY?
Post by: Loopy on August 13, 2005, 12:24:08 AM

F is my favorite white key to play in.

Title: FAVORITE KEY
Post by: BroAllan on August 13, 2005, 04:08:22 AM

MY "FAVORITE KEY TO PLAY IN, IS THE KEY THAT OPENS THE "GATES OF WORSHIP..."       THANK YOU LORD!!

Title: WHAT KEY?
Post by: Boombox on August 13, 2005, 07:48:58 PM

Well I am a flat person myself but I would prefer C because I can play anything in that key

Title: WHAT KEY?
Post by: musician_organist on August 14, 2005, 09:19:56 AM

Quote from: Boombox

Well I am a flat person myself

i like flats too.  I like Bb most of all, but I can do more in Ab.

Title: WHAT KEY?
Post by: Metronome on August 16, 2005, 09:30:33 AM

B major because it can get you to Ab in a hurry :D  :D  :D  :D
B minor becaus stuff just sounds hot in it. (Come Unto me,A slow jam on the Hezekiah Walkerr CD with I'll Fly away on it is Off the hook)