[rodgersorgan] Re: Challenging keys
- From: "St. Clement's Choir" <stclementschoir@xxxxxxx>
- To: <rodgersorgan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 08:27:12 +1000
Confession time
Its not hard keys that are the problem for me, sometimes halfway along the
stave - I have to check what key I'm in. My concentration factor must be
weak. Of course - doesn't happen all the time, usually it happens when I
least expect it and Tengo que verificar lo que importante estoy en, oops I
lapsed into Spanish, I meant to say I have to check what key I am in.
Seriously, if anyone else does this and has a method by which it has been
combatted - sure would love to know. I think its probably down to self
discipline, and I certainly need more of that.
Best wishes all
Rod Mather
www.rodeby.net/music
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephanie Mondello" <stephm60030@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <rodgersorgan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 1:12 AM
Subject: [rodgersorgan] Re: Challenging keys
>
> My horror story involves being asked to include "Prayer of St. Francis"
for a congregational hymn at a funeral. I have been known to "zone out" on
occasions in the early morning, that particular morning being a case in
point I guess. Our hymnals had been recently replaced, and I failed to
notice that the key signature had changed from D to D flat--no big deal
since all the notes are the same. The problem came when I came to a portion
of the accompaniment where they had added a modulation in the updated
accompaniment. YOWSERS--did I wake up fast--what a disaster!
> Stephanie Mondello St Gilbert Catholic Church Grayslake, IL
> wolflampert@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> OK, I'll fess up. I too am spooked by key signatures with too many
> sharps or flats. Anything with more than 3 sharps or flats is what I
> consider challenging. But here's a trick I sometimes use: If the music
> is in, say, Db major (5 flats), I'll simply play it as if it were written
> in D major (2 sharps). Similarly, a piece in E major (4 sharps) can be
> played as if it were written in Eb major (3 flats). You just have to
> figure out what to do with any accidentals that come along. Use the
> transposer to correct the pitch if necessary. In the case of your short
> Gb section, see if you have enough time to turn the transposer knob down
> one notch and play as if in the key of G. Remember to untranspose at the
> end of the section!
>
> Wolf Lampert
> Colorado Springs, CO
>
>
> On Sun, 03 Nov 2002 21:30:48 -0600 William E Ehrke
> writes:
> >
> > Do any of you wish you could avoid playing in certain keys?
> > B-natural has always been a problem for me and even now, presumably
> > with
> > a certain amount of experience (or at least age) under my belt, I
> > flinch
> > whenever five sharps pop up in a key signature. What prompts this
> > post,
> > though, is not B, but a much rarer bogey. We're rehearsing an
> > anthem
> > with a brief G-flat section (yep, six flats). Can't remember when
> > the
> > last time was that I played in that key, but apparently I've run
> > completely out of the necessary brain cells. Neither my mind nor my
> > fingers can cope with the idea of G-flat -- and yet its twin sister
> > F-sharp is no problem. Solution: rewrite the section as an F-sharp
> > lead
> > sheet and pretend that I'm not losing my mind!
> >
> > Anybody else have this sort of key blindness? Do you wish it
> > were
> > against the law to compose in a particular key? It would be a great
> > comfort to know that my brain is not the only one that's got this
> > curious prejudice against certain keys.
> >
> > B.E.
> >
> >
> >
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