Hi all. This stems from Kjell's post about favourite key but it got me thinking. How many of you write music in C major?! I saw Elia does but I honestly seem to dodge C major all the time! I still use A minor a bit but even then I tend to find that without the black keys it somehow seems like it's missing an edge to it.
I know it's sonically in the middle of the road but am I just being a snob because that's generally where most of us were taught to start with and it seems a bit basic! (It's definitely me being stuck up!)😉
If you've written some music that you can link me to in C major I'd love to hear it for some inspiration because I feel that I should sit down and work with it a bit more!
Have a great day everyone
i have a piece of mine written in C, which is "Walking on a dream". It is all in C major even though there are some chords that are not diatonic, like Fm, which is one of my favourite chords (the minor 4th). But i like it how it turned up. I agree with you when you say it is basic, because actually it is ahahah. That's why i am trying to avoid it. But in fact every key could sound basic if we use only diatonic chords. I think that with some modulations used in the right places and in the right time, like Kjell does, C major could be really nice.
The most difficult scale of all time :D Have made a couple tracks on C but its hard to get some kind of harmony to it if you ask me. Just change to C# major and it instantly sounds better tone for me 🙄
interesting, Richard. That poor C Major 😀 but I know what you mean by calling it basic. It always has a (too) clean, guiltless/edgeless, sound for me. Maybe it's due to the piano start of C or the fact that there are a lot of traditional christmas songs / children songs written in C. I went through all my pieces, I have one C major.. that wanders around with some modal interchange, but staying in, in general: Nothing's Gonna Harm You Some trick might be not to start obviously in C. I did this here on someday Reaching the "I" in bar 4. Could also be F-lydian. Changing key after 8 bars already (going back to it later though) Something like that could give it some variety out of the C major dilemma.
I also have one C - boogie woogie called Okay - it's more of a pentatonic blues mixture though. Essence of Water also begins and ends in C major again I'm obviously way too much of a lydian over ionian lover
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