Sax players tend to prefer flats to sharps. I understand that guitar players really don’t like the key of E flat, but prefer keys where they can use a lot of open strings. This includes the fact that some keys are inherently “harder” on some instruments than others. So, I guess the instrument you play and your level of accomplishment on that instrument heavily influence what key a song will end up being in. Thus, my guess is the key developed because I liked/preferred (subconsciously) to noodle using a certain range on that given instrument, certain keys (on a keyboards), certain strings or frets, and then certain phrases, licks etc that I was familiar with or actually could play - my approach to composing was, as mentioned, based a lot on trial and error and not necessarily on a complete mastery of a certain instrument, or working off a theoretical framework for composing. Mostly, the key would develop as I was “composing”, which, for me, mostly meant noodling on an instrument until some ideas crystallized. So, I don’t know how the 12 bar blues scheme has evolved, and I haven’t read answer in the lessons (so please bear with me if I state the obvious below), but I can give some personal input to the question on “picking” a key:įrom my own experience composing songs, I never sat down and decided beforehand that a song had to be in a certain key (well, actually, thinking about it now, one of my earliest attempts to compose was to be in f minor, but probably just because I thought, for whatever reason, f minor was cool - it was really very silly looking back at it now).
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