![]() ![]() You garden variety 12 bar blues will follow the chord progression laid out by Josh (I - I - I - I - IV - IV - I - I - V - IV - I - I), so let’s stick with that and not (yet) worry about some slight modifications to this scheme. Still, it could influence the composing process and subconsciously “guide” you to certain keys more often than they way I see it, the Roman Numerals IS the Nashville numbering system! Nobody really seems to think keys with five or six flats (or sharps) are “nice” and really should be avoided.Īlso, if you are a singer, and compose based off a melody that you intend to sing, then you will always tend to put that melody in a range that you can comfortably sing, and that would then determine the key of the song.įinally, there might be something (individually? culturally?) that makes certain keys just “sound” better to our ears than other keys, but I really don’t know much about why that might be. 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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