Let's simplify key signature from keynote and mode, the
single-line table way. Memorize the line and you don't need
the table.
Key Sig.Mode: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
0 #/b: FLyd Cmaj GMix DDor Amin EPhr BLoc
If you have a sharp keynote just sharpen all the
Eric Forgeot wrote:
I think that the transcriber wanted to help people like me reading
D key ? oh, so there is 2 sharps in it.
But then, why not write K:Edorian % 2 sharps
instead of K:D % Edorian
If I read EDorian I have to find my table with all the modes, find
the right one, and then the
I have to agree with Henrik.
My experience is that many musicians (including some quite good ones who
really ought to know better) do one of two things. They either say an Edor
tune is in D (which is silly as it spends it's time flirting briefly with D
and then homing back to E just as a piece
Henrik Norbeck wrote:
Eric Forgeot wrote:
I think that the transcriber wanted to help people like me reading
D key ? oh, so there is 2 sharps in it.
But then, why not write K:Edorian % 2 sharps
instead of K:D % Edorian
If I read EDorian I have to find my table with all the modes,
I use Barfly, and really like its intonation options. Just intonation is particularly
well-suited to the bulk of the stuff out there in abc (european-based traditional and
early music,diatonic, doesn't go modulating all over the place), but it has to be
based on the tonic note you are
