Your Favorite Key!

I dig "B Major" but really E Lydian. I prefer thinking in modes rather than keys usually. So yeah, I love E Lydian and F# Dorian

Find this...I think you'd dig it.

George Russell's Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organization.

For me, about half of my entire musical approach is derived from the Lydian Chromatic concept....

Would you ask a painter what his favie colour to paint was?

Yes. I know one who is quite partial to shades of purple and is sad that she doesn't get to use them much.

Or a writer what his favourite word was?

Yes. A LOT of people have favourite words in their language, especially people who write and know the language well.

What next? Favorite articulation?

I'm rather partial to the two extremes myself, staccatissimo and legatissimo, if you wanna call them that, but I do like accents. A lot.

tone? timbre?

These both mean the same thing. I prefer that of the brass, for sho'. Horn, euphonium, tuba. I rather like that of the bassoon, too, sometimes cor anglais.

color to wear at the concert?

This goes back to the 'favourite colour' question. I rather like wearing green, myself. Any nice earthy colours. Unless I'm the performer, of course, then I'm at the merci of the director's wishes.

seat in the audience?

ACTUALLY, this can really have an amazing impact on your listening experience in some halls/rooms/auditoriums. In one place everything may be as clear as a bell, but if you move five seats to the right and one up you can't hear the horn section and bassoons at all. In a few particular seats, the trombones or trumpet may overpower the orchestra in their respective passages, SO... I do believe we're entitled to having favourite seats. Especially when you consider viewpoint as part of the equation.

Yes.

Oh for chrissakes. Please tell me this is satire.

George Russell's Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organization.

I really had trouble understanding what he's getting at from the internet resources, and one other forum thread I had read on his stuff was not aimed at a musician, but listener's standpoint.

What exactly is his thing? I have (and loved) Ezzthetics, and supposedly Miles' modal stuff was based on Russell's work.

Oh for chrissakes. Please tell me this is satire.

Yes and no.

*insert any of Mozart's laughs from Amadeus*

lets see... favorite major key... C#

favorite minor

e

I'm quite partial to Gbb. Not F though. And E aeolian, but not E minor.

And my favorite blues is in hoss flat =]

I'm stupid.

Am I the only one here, where all keys sound the same to me? I can't tell the difference between C minor or D minor for the life of me.

Aside from that, I enjoy disarray, so a mixture of keys in a piece suit my style. But I do prefer minor over major.

My favourite major key: D major

My favourite minor key: G minor

I have no idea why, but my instincts told me those 2 answers. =)

Chopin, I know in my case it's my fingers that tend to choose favourites rather than my ear. On the piano C minor and C# will sound identical to the listener from one day to the next unless obviously played one after another since the other is higher than the first. However, maybe a pianist likes fingering notes in C# minor and is not that hot about C minor, so he'll choose favourites that way. I like the feel of Db and B majors on the piano, but you ask me to play those written key on flute or worse, clarinet, or worstest bassoon, which I can't play very well, and I'll slap you across the face with a shovel. For instance, I don't think I like E minor that much on a piano, but you'll hear a lot of guitarists pull that one out of the hat above all others. I rather like it on wind instruments myself ... just not piano. I wish I could really explain it. :blink:

If a favorite key is a bit of laziness, then it has no place in a musician's repertoire.

Case in point, as you said, E on standard-tuned guitars. Minor is preferred because of Rock and Blues, though blues scales were often in-between, inexact, and from performer to performer - somewhat like Indian music.

Anyway. That's what i'd figure would come out eventually, since I'm guilty of it too, I play in diminished or whole-tone scales a lot on bass, but that's because of symmetric laziness, not that I really prefer that tonality.

Favorite Major Keys: Bb and F

Favorite Minor Key: C Minor

Favorite Mode: Dorian

Favorite Note: Bb4

Favorite Meal: Lasagna

Favorite Season: Winter

Favorite Colour: Red

Favorite Disease: Leprosy

Favorite Religion: King Boudism

The keys appeal to me the most are always the flat keys, mainly the black note keys, D flat, E flat, G flat, A flat, and B flat. They just sound different to me compared to white note keys.

This would be a good time for:

gently caress, I meant Bbb, but my point remains the same.

Your use of that picture, however, elevates you above "Nerd" to "Melvin".

Favorite Disease: Leprosy

I wish i had one..

[re: George Russell's LCCOTO] I really had trouble understanding what he's getting at from the internet resources, and one other forum thread I had read on his stuff was not aimed at a musician, but listener's standpoint.

What exactly is his thing? I have (and loved) Ezzthetics, and supposedly Miles' modal stuff was based on Russell's work.

It's a bit dense, and I 'm not surprised you didn't get much from online resources. It's weird and difficult to explain, and I can't even remember how I got into it...I just know that a lot of what I do with harmonic movement and such, is based around the Lydian Chromatic ideas...

It's really about how modes/chords work together - the relationships between disparate modes and how synthetic modes (auxiliary diminished blues scale, anyone?) can be devised to augment the overall spectrum of available textures...and junk.

I'll get the book out of the library and perhaps start a thread. It's got some very cool tables, diagrams and pop-up-style mode-configurator jobbys... ;)

Am I the only one here, where all keys sound the same to me? I can't tell the difference between C minor or D minor for the life of me.

Aside from that, I enjoy disarray, so a mixture of keys in a piece suit my style. But I do prefer minor over major.

No. You're not.

I prefer to write in certain keys, because of the way certain instruments sound in that register, but I can't tell by listening to a piece with a certain mood what key it's in. I almost ALWAYS write in flat keys.

Favorite Religion: King Boudism

Eww. Heretic.

Favorite Major Keys: Bb and F

Trombone player. :P

Favorite Major Keys: Bb and F

Trombone player. :P

There's other keys?

Well, if we follow Greg's example, trombones also like Cbb major.

(P.s., I've heard of a certain type of 'Eb Conical Bell' instrument, so I assume that key is available... to those with the know-how. :shifty:)

Probably not in just intonation, though.

Probably not in equal temperament. :laugh:

Well, if we follow Greg's example, trombones also like Cbb major.

(P.s., I've heard of a certain type of 'Eb Conical Bell' instrument, so I assume that key is available... to those with the know-how. :shifty:)

I would probably shoot anyone who wrote a piece in Cbb major.

Well, I'm a hair metal guitarist, so my favorite key is A. Not major or minor, either. Just A. A with a strong I chord, but also with gobs of bVI and bVIIs. Oh yeah.

The major third is strongly implied by the overtones of the 1+5+8 power chord. :P

A (..................................major) ?