The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #109280 Message #2283249
Posted By: Tattie Bogle
08-Mar-08 - 06:44 PM
Thread Name: How much difference does the Key make?
Subject: RE: How much difference does the Key make?
For instrumentals there are definitely "Brighter keys": a common progression in a set of tunes is from G to D to A.(all major) Not sure of the theory of it: something to do with harmonics? But can certainly sense it.
As far as singing goes, if I'm singing unaccompanied, I don't use any tuning device to decide start note. I have a fair sense of pitch if not "perfect pitch". If the song has a wide range, I "sing in my head" the highest and the lowest note in the song to determine where I should start, which usually works.
Session musicians who try to accompany complain that most of the women sing in either A flat or B flat: no probs for a capo-able instrument, but not so good for fixed pitch instruments!