Finding Keys
Time for ear training. Here is a simple sounding shuffle blues track. Can you find out what key it's in? Use the pentatonic minor scale.
Ex. 1
When you are trying to find out the key of a song, you have to just start randomly playing some notes and listen for notes that sound good. Like this.
Ex. 2 What about this?
You just know when you are in a wrong key, because it just sounds wrong!!!
Some songs can be played with minor pentatonic scale...
And major pentatonic scale.
Ex. 3 Your on your own on this one. This can only be played in major.
posted by Retired Rock Star Wannabe at 12:35 AM
7 Comments:
how come no one is guessing??.... well....... then i'll try one ... is #1 in Bm????
6/11/2006 8:10 AM
is #2 in A??
6/11/2006 8:23 AM
Dear Fake Musician,
Well, #1 is E, #2 is D and #3 is A, but I have a feeling that you have #1 and #2 mixed up and #2 and #3 mixed up. When you play #2 with D major pentatonic scale, it's the same as B minor pentatonic which is what you guessed for #1.
You said that #2 is A but it's #3 that's A. Thanks for playing anyway!
6/11/2006 1:34 PM
Hahaha, that's a good one, notefarmer
but i totally missed it, i only played a few notes and made the conclusion so...
6/12/2006 8:21 PM
but this is a good practice, more please RRSW~
6/12/2006 8:23 PM
Dear notefarmer,
Ok, you win!
6/12/2006 9:48 PM
I only know H Mixo-mesopotamian semi-harmonic major scale by heart...
6/12/2006 11:04 PM
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