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Cecil,
I think you've heard from both sides. I wanted to respond right away when you first put up the thread but I held back because I feel that's a question only you can answer. As for me, I don't sing and I don't play in a band so I won't care to learn songs in another key. However, despite saying that, I do recommend that any musician, beginner or advanced, know how to transpose. |
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Hi Cecil
I don't live or play in a world where the actual key I play in is that critical, and certainly not when strange keys are mandatory. If I were playing such a piece, I'd just add a capo. If I found a solo song I wanted to play and my only learning source was either a score or YouTube video in an odd-ball key, I'd transpose it to a different key using the chord progression in a manageable key. To me, keys are not sacred, and practicing scales in hard to think-in keys mostly unnecessary. I spent half day teaching some capable students in Mexico, and we spoke in Solfeggio Do Re Mi Fa Sol La Ti Do with fixed Do (Do being C). They could read hands, and I taught them concepts like 'Root' in just a couple minutes. We never got stranded and nobody asked about any songs in the key of 'Di' (C#). (chromatic solfege Do-Di Ra-Re-Ri Me-Mi Fa-Fi etc)
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As always this forum is a wealth of knowledge and experience. I thank you all for your input!
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Learning uncommon keys is especially useful if you write music for the guitar. Exploring different keys -- like exploring different tunings -- may well inspire ideas you might not have had sticking to more familiar territory.
E.g., I'm currently writing a finger-style blues in each major key of the chromatic scale (and plan to do pretty much the same with minor keys), and each one is significantly different from the others.
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Third post in this thread for me. Just to recap, I am a seventy year old self taught guitar player that decided to step it up a little by taking some one on one lessons. I've been playing scales non stop for a month. This week I was playing them with a backing track and all of a sudden yesterday it came together. Like one minute I was flailing away and the next minute I was in the groove. I feel good about scales.
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I can play a C scale from memory. That's it.
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