by "The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock" (jukesjukesjukes)
Published 01/22/2017 at 10:56

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Then the worship leader decided to change from the Key of G to the Key of B. He was not popular with the worship team.

If you know music theroy, Key of G is easy. Key of B is damn hard to play.

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"Chariotoflove" (chariotoflove)
01/22/2017 at 11:05, STARS: 0

I had a choir leader/pianist who thought it would be fun to switch the key at random in the middle of a song. No one liked her either.

"Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap" (ddadragon)
01/22/2017 at 11:19, STARS: 0

Who did this?

"The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock" (jukesjukesjukes)
01/22/2017 at 11:23, STARS: 0

An evil person.

"Shour, Aloof and Obnoxious" (shour)
01/23/2017 at 00:05, STARS: 0

Oof. I have encountered this. Worse, I encountered this when I was in high school, playing alto sax. Think the key of B is terrible on keys or guitar? Wind instruments live and die in the flat keys, so I just went back to playing whole notes on the bass line.

Now that I am grown and have two music degrees, and am leading worship at my church, key is always dictated by most common singable range. My musicians are generally comfortable enough to make the adjustments if necessary, because they understand that it’s more important that the melody is in a range where most of the congregation can sing it (between middle C and top space E-flat). The writers of all those old hymnals figured out that business centuries ago. As such, we only have one tune we play in B (Hillsong’s None But Jesus ), but we have it down pretty solid, so no one bats an eyelash. Anything else we find in B usually gets moved to A.

"The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock" (jukesjukesjukes)
01/23/2017 at 00:11, STARS: 0

Right now we are trying to find a leader, the old one just moved across the country. So every week it’s somebody different, that’s makes it interesting. I’m just the sound guy, but the key change throws me off.