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JPSaxMan · Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2005 11:49 pm Post subject: What key am I in?

Having a little trouble deciphering this key.

I have the following notes, no accidentals or whatever: D#, C#, B, A#, G#, F#, E#

Help! Shocked

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Bariman · Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2005 11:55 pm Post subject:

F sharp major- 6 sharps.

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JPSaxMan · Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2005 11:56 pm Post subject:

Omg...thank you. That was frying my brain Shocked

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JPSaxMan · Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2005 11:57 pm Post subject:

Ok...here's another question...that's for tenor pitch. What's that same thing in concert pitch?
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JPSaxMan · Posted: Sat Dec 24, 2005 12:02 am Post subject:

WHOA...hold phone, I messed up.

I need this in a flat key. So...it'd be Eb, Db, Cb, Bb, Ab, Gb, F....right?
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Bariman · Posted: Sat Dec 24, 2005 12:48 am Post subject:

Ironically, it is now called G flat major, which is in essence the same thing, but through the use of flats.

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altosax4ever · Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2005 12:08 am Post subject:

Um...JP? Don't you know your 12 major scales?
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Louis Scuderi · Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2005 7:44 am Post subject:

Guest · Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 9:18 pm Post subject:

http://forumofthesaxes.myfreeforum.org/ftopic424.php

Check this out, it's the forum I wrote on the circle. In addition to looking at it, you may want to learn it all lol. Anyway, just take the number of flats and look for what the circle says and voila. If you're trying to find the concert pitch, if you're an alto for example a concert C would be a A scale for us, so just move over 3. I believe for tenor you move left 1 space from concert to tenor pitch, but i'm not sure.

IMHO: I think of it as F# in concert band and Gb for jazz, I guess it helps me think better or something, I don't know. Just something i've been doing since I started.

JPSaxMan · Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 10:03 pm Post subject:

Actually I do "know" my 12 scales and I do "know" the circle of fifths but haven't shedded the scales in a while and didn't have immediate access to my circle of fifths. So...that's what I did. I don't even need it now anyway! Laughing

...the song I was thinking of is now in a different key Embarassed

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JazZz · Joined: 05 Jul 2005 Posts: 170

Haha..that sucks.
My 1st teacher kind of drilled the circle into our heads so it is kind of a surprise when anyone exept a freshmen asks a question on key transposition. The freshmen all get their scare when they have a test on the first friday of the first week of school on the circle and they have to transpose the scales in their head, all this performed in front of the teacher.

JPSaxMan · Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 8:39 pm Post subject:

I've been shedding more on my scales thanks to this incident Laughing

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JazZz, tough teacher eh? Laughing

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JazZz · Joined: 05 Jul 2005 Posts: 170

eh..not really, he just liked scaring freshmen. He had some bad moments though, he couldn't control his temper and he'd throw stuff at his seniors when he got mad.

On a side note..when every high school band teacher gets mad, do they all go and get a color guard rifle and sit there and spin it for a half an hour? I've seen 4 different high school teachers do this and it's hilarious to watch.