Do you have a favorite key?

My favorite key would definitely have to be E Major. I think that it sounds so beautiful, especially when you have some E Major chords then an F#-A-C natural-E chord. Basically E Major sounds really good with A Minor. Pianolady, it would sound really nice if you tried Eb Major then G# Minor, or Db Major with F# Minor. My system for finding keys that sound really good together is take the fourth note of the major key scale, and use the minor key of that note. Everyone probably already knew this though .

Anyway, to answer your question again, my favorite key is E Major. It's just so beautiful! Pieces like Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, the second movement of Grieg's third violin sonata, and the second movement of Rachmaninoff's second piano concerto are all in E Major, and they all touch me so much! E Major all the way!! Just kidding...

 

My favourite key is the lowest one on my grand. It sounds sooo good. Don't get to hit it very often, but when it happens (like in the closing of Debussy's l'Isle Joyeuse) I make the most of it. Having said that, the B flat next to is is very nice too :lol:

 

B flat major.....best piece written in this key? I would have to say Brahm's second piano concerto 8)

 

fav. key

For some reason I usually like minor keys, especially C# minor and D minor. I have no idea why.

 

I think out of the minor keys, my favorite would have to be C Minor.

 

D-flat major has been my favorite ever since I started listening to music. I haven't come up with a logical/harmonic reason to explain why except that to my ears, all the overtones match up perfectly in that key. In a minor key, I say D#.

My least liked are D and A major, and in minor, C. Those never sound quite right to my ears.

Why? I dunno.

Pete

 

First movement of the Grieg Concerto!

I don't think I have a favorite key, but I did notice that a lot of my favorites are in D-flat Major and F Minor. I don't think there are any keys that I don't like.

 

My favorite key sounds surreal...err I think?

 

F# minor and the rare Eb minor. But also F minor and C# minor
Between major keys.....mumble....Ab major and Eb major.

All best,
Sandro
waiting for his new "Rieger-Kloss" piano model "Janacek" (now I had to study some pieces of Janacek, of sure).

 

> Sandro, getting a new piano is so exciting! I bet you can't wait.

It remains for 20-25 days (holidays, they cannot carry it) at the dealer's room, with other 30-40 pianos. But today I'll visit it.
I hope that when it will be here he does't feel alone....


> Maybe you can take pictures when it arrives. And then you will re-record all of your music on the new piano, right?

This is my idea. It will be more difficult (actually, with my digital is so simple: line out to
the computer, no problem for external noises...), but I hope in a better sound.
Let's go to study: today LvB op. 57 first movement (let's try to make sweeter all that
arpeggios and virtuosistic passagges, to render them less Czerny or Hanon), Chopin op.44,
and a transcription from a Bill Evans piano solo (Town hall concert. The piece is
"Turn out the stars". One can not realize how beautiful this piece is).

All best,
Sandro

 

I don't have perfect pitch. So they all sound the same to me.

 

Can't be easy to enjoy music if all keys sound the same

 

But isn't it all relative? You can transpose a song into other keys, and I would not be able to tell the difference.

To me I could play in any key and be happy. I often transition through several different keys when I practice/improvise. I just honestly cannot hear the difference. I'll play through many melodies and think to myself, would this really sound different in C or C# or B? And then I play it in another key and realize, no it is not; it is the same song.


Perhaps long trained musicians hear it differently than I do. I did not grow up knowing or learning music. I only learned once I became an adult.

 

D-Flat Major RULES!!!

 

But don't rule out B-flat major :wink:

 

Perhaps it has something to do with the tempered tuning?