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Gospel Instruments => Gospel Keyboard / Piano => Topic started by: jude63 on October 01, 2009, 05:41:57 AM

Title: modulating
Post by: jude63 on October 01, 2009, 05:41:57 AM
Is there a hard and fast rule to mudulating to another key? I know the standard way is to play the dominant chord of the key youre moving to but....should you go up 1 semi tone or should you modulate to whereever you want? also does a singer have a "logical" key that they modulate to?
 
Title: Re: modulating
Post by: T-Block on October 01, 2009, 11:05:46 AM
Is there a hard and fast rule to mudulating to another key? I know the standard way is to play the dominant chord of the key youre moving to but....should you go up 1 semi tone or should you modulate to whereever you want? also does a singer have a "logical" key that they modulate to?
 

Basically, u can modulate wherever u want. Just make sure the transition works for your choir or singers.

There are logical modulations, like going to the dominant, or switching from minor to major (or vice versa), going to the sub-dominant, half-step up, whole step up, etc. Then, there are those funky modulations like modulating down, going up more than a whole step, successive modulations in a row, etc.

It all depends on what u want to do man.
Title: Re: modulating
Post by: jude63 on October 01, 2009, 03:22:11 PM
cool, thanks again. Then you have the singers that modulate without even knowing it, haha
Title: Re: modulating
Post by: T-Block on October 01, 2009, 04:02:51 PM
cool, thanks again. Then you have the singers that modulate without even knowing it, haha

Yeah, LOL. :D