Terminalcoffee discussion

Mine are A Minor despite being confectionary sorrow, and G Minor which is basically condensed longing.
Of the majors, I opt for C, tis 'jazz hands' in musical form.

A minor is a dark blue. C major is a warm red.

I love the way both of you describe these keys.

I don't really have a favorite. Maybe Eb?


Reminds me of:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4u8ygq...

Do you have synesthesia, Matthew? For me, A Minor is a stained-glass fuschia and C Major sunrise gold.

I don't have synesthesia (at least, I don't think I do), but that's funny. I was also thinking C Major was gold.

[you guys knew i was going to try to go with a "truck key" joke here but i decided not too because you are all smart and obviously know what you are talking about here:]

Reminds me of this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giOzzf...

i remember you posted this before (i think) and i watched it thinking "catchy song, cute girl"

I still have the keys to my 85 Lesabre. Man, I miss that car.

(And I can't read music, but I wish I could)

Kevin the Barbarian wrote: "[you guys knew i was going to try to go with a "truck key" joke here but i decided not too because you are all smart and obviously know what you are talking about here:]"

I'm right there with you Kevin, car keys were the first thing that came to my mind.

Dylan on favorite keys:

Do you have favorite keys to work in?

On the piano, my favorite keys are the black keys. And they sound better on guitar, too.

Sometimes when a song's in a flat key, say B flat, bring it to the guitar, you might want to put it in A. But... that's an interesting thing you just said. It changes the reflection. Mainly in mine the songs sound different. They sound... when you take a black key song and put it on the guitar, which means you're playing in A flat, not too many people like to play in those keys. To me it doesn't matter. [Laughs:] It doesn't matter because my fingering is the same anyway. So there are songs that, even without the piano, which is the dominant sound if you're playing in the black keys -- why else would you play in that key except to have that dominant piano sound? -- the songs that go into those keys right from the piano, they sound different. They sound deeper. Yeah. They sound deeper. Everything sounds deeper in those black keys.

They're not guitar keys, though. Guitar bands don't usually like to play in those keys, which kind of gives me an idea, actually, of a couple of songs that could actually sound better in black keys.

http://www.bluerailroad.com/archives/...

D minor is the saddest key of all, according to Nigel Tufnel...

http://www.poetv.com/video.php?vid=37156

excellent cultural reference jackie

How did they understand what Dylan was saying, Sarah? When I hear him he sounds like:

"hsaghwalahshalwaygghlhlbhergghhhlsrhslbplhlwrfh."

It's all in the inflection of the mumbles.

I wrote a song called "C#m" for my first album. That's a good key, if a difficult one. It's got an edge.

Do you have synesthesia, Matthew?

Yes. I can understand how you might 'see' C maj as "sunrise gold"--like the sun seen through closed lids.

D min is the wooded hole in the gnarled tree; the evening light falls in pools in the shadows of the deep forest. Perhaps the grey firmament above the funeral procession.

message 18: That was stunning. Thank you.