Don't classical guitarists do arrangements in different keys? I read somewhere that part of arranging a classical piece is to find a key where the open strings work for you. It's a good idea with jazz chord melody too, often the difference between smooth time and that herky jerky stuff we sometimes hear from jazz players.
Key doesn't make that much difference to me in the way a song sounds, not that I have such a great ear. It can make a difference in the comping, if you can't easily get the voicing you want in the register you're playing in.
I play a lot of Brazilian music written by guitarists -- and there are sounds that simply don't transpose well on guitar.
I've also read that some musicians have something called synesthesia which associates color and key -- I'd guess that key makes more of a difference to them.
Rick
--- In jazz_gui...@yahoogroups.com, JVegaTrio@... wrote:
> Y'know, Alisdair has it right, any tune should be in all keys.
> If you work w/ singers, you are often hit with songs in all
> sorts of different keys; I played w/ one once that did everything
> in B, and that was interesting. Sounded different, too.
> Even the people who write the tunes sometimes change keys,
> depending on the situation, or who knows. What I find very
> interesting is that the same thing doesn't happen in classical
> music, ie, you'd never hear Bach's D Minor Invention in Ab
> minor, eg. I believe this is primarily because classical
> composers believed that different keys had different timbres.
> Which brings me to a question for those here who write tunes:
> when you write a song, does the key center have any bearing
> on it? Personally, if I hear a melody in my head, I have the
> tendency to write the tune in the key in which I hear it, that
> sometimes drives my sax player nuts... Comments???
> Cheers,
> JV
> Juan Vega
> In a message dated 11/7/2009 10:24:35 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,
> chris_s@... writes:
> For that matter, has anybody heard Girl from Ipanema in F?
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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