Your Favorite Key!

R# Major

I love Ab major. It's so happy and sad at the same time.

My favorite musical key happens to be C# Minor. Soundcloud has evidently caught onto this as seen by the fact that half of the music it recommends to me happens to be in said key. C# Minor for me evokes spiritual depth and drama, and I experience it as generally having a softly glowing sunset orange coloration. 

15 minutes ago, Polaris said:

My favorite musical key happens to be C# Minor

My favourite key too!!!!!!

5 hours ago, Henry Ng Tsz Kiu said:

My favourite key too!!!!!!

 

What a coincidence. There are a whopping 24 standard keys to choose from, and we have the same favorite. Of course, in a world with things like the Birthday Parodox, that is perhaps after all not so surprising.

It's extremely nice having perfect pitch, isn't it? They say it's a curse, but it's the difference between hearing in black and white, as normal people do, and hearing a whole spectrum of colors. In truth, I can't fathom how ordinary people hear. Apparently, they hear structure--intervals--but do not associate particular notes and keys with any unique qualities. I always wonder how they can even perceive a key change. To me, a change of key is, for example, like going from yellow to purple. But they evidently do not have that experience--for them it's purely about the intervals. 

I took a genetic test recently which showed that I apparently have heightened musicality from distant Finnish ancestors. I wonder if this is where I get the perfect pitch from. I am not Asian, to be sure, so it isn't related to having Chinese ancestry (Chinese people have a very high rate of perfect pitch, probably due to a mix of genetics and the nature of their language).

1 hour ago, Polaris said:

It's extremely nice having perfect pitch, isn't it? They say it's a curse, but it's the difference between hearing in black and white, as normal people do, and hearing a whole spectrum of colors. In truth, I can't fathom how ordinary people hear. Apparently, they hear structure--intervals--but do not associate particular notes and keys with any unique qualities. I always wonder how they can even perceive a key change. To me, a change of key is, for example, like going from yellow to purple. But they evidently do not have that experience--for them it's purely about the intervals

Tho I think it's nothing special to have perfect pitch, since millions of people have it. But with pitch each key does have their distinctive characters. Maybe that's why some people feel like different keys sound the same.

1 hour ago, Polaris said:

Chinese people have a very high rate of perfect pitch, probably due to a mix of genetics and the nature of their language

Yeah they say Chinese and esp. my language Cantonese gives ppl a higher chance to have perfect pitch, becoz in my case there are 6 (or some may say 9 or 10) tones so we are already familiar with different tones when we are babies which help create the perfect putch thing.

Henry