![]() ![]() Why use these keys? Because they're there. ![]() But what's the reason for keys like B or B Flat or F? When I learn the breaks, I can't play with anyone else in another key, since some/many of the notes in the breaks use open strings. ![]() And I understand the reason to use a capo on guitar to suit the singers's range, yet let the guitarist use the C or G shape chords. I fiddle a bit and understand the advantage to fiddlers of playing in the keys of A or D. Same with Nine Pounds Hammer, but in the key of B. He provides music with some breaks in dot and tab form for Careless Love, but the music is in the key of B flat. I'm working with Jack Tottle's Bluegrass Mandolin (great book). I'd maybe get 10 % of it,but the next time around,i'd get another 10% of it = it builds on itself, I'm 100 % self taught & i did what i did on banjo - tried to play everything,even if sometimes it was bit above the level of my playing skill. I began playing mandolin 13 years ago,after i'd been playing banjo for 42 years. Here's another favourite practice tune of mine - ''Bootleg John'' in the Key of B. One of my favourite practice tunes,is the title track one from Alison Brown's CDs ''Fair Weather'' - in Ab. Two of Bill Monroe's 'classic' tunes - ''Northern White Clouds'' & ''Southern Comfort'' are in the key of E (please forgive me if i have either of those 2 tunes wrong - i'm on the verge of recovery from a massive dose of bronchial flu, & my brain's a tad scambled from all the coughing). If you want to be ''as good as you can be'',you need to nail tunes in every key that comes along. ![]() A Cafe member began a thread asking the same thing about songs / tunes in the key of 'E'. ![]()
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