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Title: I Need Help!!!!
Post by: godsbassman2000 on December 29, 2007, 11:27:38 PM
I'm trying to learn a song from sheet music and it's not written in the original key (C#minor). The sheet music has this note. "This edition has been transposed down one half step to be more playable" (C minor). At the bridge, the key signature has 3 natural signs. What does this mean in terms of the original key signature? ?/?


Thanks!
Title: Re: I Need Help!!!!
Post by: T-Block on December 30, 2007, 07:45:49 AM
O.K., if you are in the key of C# minor, that means the key signature has 4 sharps; F#, C#, G#, D# (E is relative major).  And you say that it gets to the bridge and there are 3 natural signs, that means there is one sharp left, probably the F#.  This means, you have modulated up (changed keys) to the key of either G major or E minor.
Title: Re: I Need Help!!!!
Post by: godsbassman2000 on December 30, 2007, 08:51:30 AM
O.K., if you are in the key of C# minor, that means the key signature has 4 sharps; F#, C#, G#, D# (E is relative major).  And you say that it gets to the bridge and there are 3 natural signs, that means there is one sharp left, probably the F#.  This means, you have modulated up (changed keys) to the key of either G major or E minor.

If it was written in C# minor and then there were 4 natural signs, what key would it become then?
Title: Re: I Need Help!!!!
Post by: T-Block on December 31, 2007, 01:50:05 PM
If it was written in C# minor and then there were 4 natural signs, what key would it become then?

You would be in the key of C or A minor.  The key signature for that is no sharps or flats.
Title: Re: I Need Help!!!!
Post by: Big T. on February 06, 2008, 11:13:11 AM
You would be in the key of C or A minor.  The key signature for that is no sharps or flats.
The man knows his stuff!!! 8)