Gimme a mountain tempo in Am. lol:D
I like A-G-E pentatonic minor/major
I’m a meatheaded guitarist. go figure.;)
I play bass in an awful lot of styles. G is probably my favorite key, I guess. Lots of open strings to use. (Upright bass) Sharp keys fall on the instrument easily, but I play in them all quite a bit.
Jazz tends to flat keys for the horn players, even if you don’t have any in the band. Singers sing in all kinds of horrible keys, but I suppose they have to.
I was playing a pit orchestra gig once, ( the show was Batboy, based on a tabloid story) and we were playing along in C flat then came across a key change- to B.:dubious: I suspect it was an artifact left over from a rewrite.
BTW- as horrible as it sounds, the key of C flat isn’t too bad; everything’s flat, so you don’t have to remember what notes are flatted.
E minor, because it’s a delicate shade of yellow-green and smells like spring.
A# major, because it’s a deep rose-red and tastes like cinnamon.
I am far from being a musician. I played a little violin while growing up and listened to some classical. That’s about it. My favorite key is E flat Major mainly because two of my favorite pieces are in that key:
Beethoven’s Piano Concerto Number 5, the “Emperor” concerto (also featured in the 1980 movie The Competition with Richard Dreyfuss and Amy Irving.
Van Cliburn, in 1961: - YouTube
Haydn’s Trumpet Concerto
Wynton Marsalis: - YouTube
I really like that trumpet concerto.
E flat Major. I have no idea what color or drink or taste it is.
I do a lot of bottleneck in open G, too. I didn’t have any favorite keys before I started playing bottleneck, but it’s voicing limitations really vary according to the key unless you re-tune or use a capo.
While G is surely the easiest for blues in open G tuning, I’m really liking B-flat maj in open G for country right now. The G minor chord means you have to stay away from the open B string unless you’re slurring into something, but the other open strings all feed into the root, IV and V nicely.
I’m mostly self taught and spent the formative years of my guitar learning finger picking and flat picking. So I lean toward the chords that seem to lend themselves to simultaneous bass and melody stuff with. So, grouping those chords together into their respective keys, I guess I prefer G, C, D and their relative minors. If I’m picking blues, A and E are good.
Of course, with a capo, I can generally get to any key. “Here Comes The Sun” has to be played in D, but if you want to play along with George, you’ve got to capo the 5th fret so it comes out in G.
I play bass, G or A are common for me. I do the color thing too.
C#m, Dm, Em (on guitar), Gm - and their relative majors.