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Victor Wooten shares some musical math


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I wanted to be on board with this. But calling it "15" keys is a brain or word-game exercise, not a music one. There is not a single difference in how you will play a D# scale, from an Eb scale. Any time you spend practicing in "both" of those keys is simply repetition of the previous one. Similarly, that adjacent-key observation is fun, but are you ever in your entire playing career going to play in one key by comparing it to a completely different and unrelated key that has nothing to do with what you're doing at the moment? I love his practice vids and particularly his relationship to time/rhythm, but this one...felt like infomercial stuff.

 

I am leaving one star intact on the rating for the Reverb guy, who is doing his best but clearly keeps getting sidetracked by thoughts of, "Isn't my hair beautiful today? I love my hair. My hair is nicer than Victor's. Anyway, where were we? Right, my hair is perfect."

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I've never been to school for music theory, but C major and C minor are not 2 different keys. The key is C. No sharps or flats in the key signature. If I say it's major or minor, that simply says whether or not to flat the third in the scale of that key. It doesn't change the sharps or flats in the key signature. It's not a different key. It's still the key of C.
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I've never been to school for music theory, but C major and C minor are not 2 different keys. The key is C. No sharps or flats in the key signature. If I say it's major or minor, that simply says whether or not to flat the third in the scale of that key. It doesn't change the sharps or flats in the key signature. It's not a different key. It's still the key of C.

I think you might mean C Major and A Minor. C Minor has three flats in the key signature (the same three as in Eb Major).

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I've never been to school for music theory, but C major and C minor are not 2 different keys. The key is C. No sharps or flats in the key signature. If I say it's major or minor, that simply says whether or not to flat the third in the scale of that key. It doesn't change the sharps or flats in the key signature. It's not a different key. It's still the key of C.

Actually C minor (the scale) has three flats. A song in the key of C minor would mostly use that scale. So that would make it a different key, wouldn't it? Playing in three flats vs zero flats is completely different.

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