Favorite Key and Time Signature?

[FLAOFEI]

As a drummer I don't really care about scales... And when I do play around on either bass or piano (the two tonal instruments I ever play) I don't usually bother checking what the scale is called. I know a few... but the only ones I know by name are C major and A minor :I

As for time sigs. I usually play 4/4, but that's just cause it's got the most songs and its the easiest to just jump into without having ever listened to the song before. It's fun to play around with stuff like 5/4 and 7/4 sometimes, but I prefer a simple time sig so I can direct my focus on what I'm doing rather than if I'm keeping the right time sig. My fav for drumming is probably a slow 4/4 with a lot of shuffle.

As for producing, I keep to 4/4 or 2/4. 2/4 being my favourite of the two. It's faster, more energetic, fun, fun, fun. I don't like playing it to much though, it feels to simple.

[JSynth]

I think what he meant was, all Major scales sound roughly the same, every diatonic sounds roughly the same, etc...

I understand what his point was. I just simply don't agree with him.

[TrotPilgrim]

I listen to prog every day, so I get a healthy diet of essential modes and time signatures. My favorite keys to improvise in are C dorian, A mixolydian, and D lydian. Dorian and mixolydian are so jazzy. Dorian is minor with some major elements and mixolydian is major with some minor elements. I love going from minor i to major IV. Lydian is just so bright and innocent. It's full of happiness, and curiosity.

As far as time signatures go, I absolutely love compound time signatures. I like polyrhythms, and I like the exercise of counting the same measure in multiple ways.

I also love complex time signatures. A good example is Blue Rondo a la Turk, by the Dave Brubeck Quartet. It's in 9/8. Sometimes it's divided up into 2+2+2+3, other times it's divided into 3+3+3.

Anything that can make the complex feel simple and catchy, basically.

[Conchetupony]

I think I am aware of modes and use them at times, but I absolutely don't care for the names. :|

[TrotPilgrim]

Really? I never found the names weird. Modes are just tools, not works of art. A hammer by any other name would strike just as hard.

[CitricAcid]

F# major is probably my favorite key. It just sounds so arbitrarily happy. A favorite time signature is harder to pick. Like most of us, I probably use 4/4 most often. I love it when I can manage to write something that has changing meters that feels natural. And I want to take a crack at 13/8 someday. There's a track from the Hidalgo soundtrack with a 13/8 section that I like the sound of.

[Paianni]

If I want an empowering sound, I prefer D major. If I'm looking for a sense of fun, G major.

In terms of diminished/augmented keys, I like Ab major, Eb major, F# minor and Bb minor.

I'm not that fussed about time signature, I've used 4/4 for everything so far but would like to try something in 5/4 in the future.

[A2Z]

I juggle around with keys a lot. I tend to gravitate towards B minor or G major.

Key signatures, I can dig a good 3/4 beat, and even though I write 95% of my music in 4/4, I get excited when I hear all the variety 7/8 can offer in various songs.

[Conduit]

As a fun little challenge I forced myself to create a track with a key change every six bars. It stays in 4/4 for the most part (I think theres like 8 bars or 3/4?), so I might repeat the challenge but with time sig instead.

It really is fun, and I invite all of you to try it. Actually, message me if you would be interested in trying and I'll create an event if theres enough people willing to give it a shot.

The song:
https://soundcloud.com/flatflish/an-autumn-song

[KillerAmp]

Interestingly enough, I've never really fret over keys or time signature, realistically I just go and input what i feel and hear in my head, sometimes its 4/4 Cminor, sometimes its 3/4 with modulating key signatures

and sometimes I do this:
https://soundcloud.com/officialaristokat/end-an-order-of-fries
this goes between like, 6/4, 4/4, 8/4, and 7/4.

[Mr. Bigglesworth]

That feel when I use C-minor for everything

Guys.

I learnt D-major and it's a good scale.

I like D Major.

[Jokeblue]

D major is good. So is D minor. I write in both alot. Result of keeping my guitar in drop D :3

I think I usually use 4/4 and sometimes 3/4, mixing them sometimes but not a lot.

[Alycs]

I'm still working on memorizing the minor Blue's Scale in all Keys. I can play it flawlessly in C, pretty well in G, and okay in F, but I'm having a hard time with other keys.
In C it goes:
C, Eb, F, Gb, G, Bb, C

Its super fun for improv because everything sounds so amazingly jazzy.

[Conduit]

I'm still working on memorizing the minor Blue's Scale in all Keys. I can play it flawlessly in C, pretty well in G, and okay in F, but I'm having a hard time with other keys.
In C it goes:
C, Eb, F, Gb, G, Bb, C

Its super fun for improv because everything sounds so amazingly jazzy.

My god, its beautiful. Thank you for opening my eyes to this amazing jazzyness

[Totalspark]

Alycs wrote:
I'm still working on memorizing the minor Blue's Scale in all Keys. I can play it flawlessly in C, pretty well in G, and okay in F, but I'm having a hard time with other keys.
In C it goes:
C, Eb, F, Gb, G, Bb, C

Its super fun for improv because everything sounds so amazingly jazzy.

You can also occasionally throw a B natural in there as a dissonant note.

[Alycs]

I usually play it be modulating between the C, F, and G blues scale so the available notes become:

C, D, Eb, F, Gb, G, Ab, A, Bb, B, C (basically a chromatic without the E and Db, frankly)

[JSynth]

Locrian. F# Locrian specifically. That is a fun mode.

[ArisingFlame]

I love Am. I don't know why. Just looove it.

[Injustrial]

A# Dorian, 140-150 Bpm. Always seems to work

[FLAOFEI]

I just recently started looking at a few piano tutorials to see if I could actually learn something from them, turns out I could. I already knew how to play them, but now I know how to identify any major or minor scale :I

Turns out my fav scale is F min :)

Fav time sig for playing music is still 4/4 with allot of shuffle, or sometimes 3/4 when I want it to be tight.
Fav for listening depends on the genre, but 7/8 breakcore <3
Fav for produceing 4/4 or 2/4

[Icky]

4/4 F-A
minimum characters my ass

[Callenby]

3/4. I can't escape it. Just when I thought I was out...it pulls me back in.

As for keys I just mess around until I find something suitable.

[Docinterlude]

My favourite key signature the (overall) is Bb Major. I always loved this key, because for choir sounds Angelical. The Relative Minor is also good but not my favourite. My Minor Favourite is C# Minor or C Minor or Bb Minor. My favourite time signature, 3/16; 4/16, 7/8, 3/8, 3/2, 5/4. But my favourite of all is definitely 3/4 (Waltzes, Mazurkas, Polonaises,Menuets, Gigues).

Cheers,

Docinterlude

[ClaviSound]

Favorite key: F minor. Maybe that's just because I'm most used to improvising over that chord on piano. Kind of weird because due the to placement of the keys it's harder to roll off the diminished 5th to the perfect 5th and vice versa, which should make me not like it, yet I do.

Maybe I just like Straight No Chaser so much I'd be willing to improvise over the version I learned for days and days.

For key signatures, since I perform rap vocals (in this fandom at least), 99.9% of any song I will ever work with is in 4/4, but I do love me some 7/4. It really puts some serious intensity into songs when done well, without relying on common practices (electric guitar + strings, "epic" choir stabs, VI-VII-i progression, and so on). Not to say said common practices are bad, just that I'd rather hear unique things, if you catch my drift.

[Docinterlude]

Favorite key: F minor. Maybe that's just because I'm most used to improvising over that chord on piano. Kind of weird because due the to placement of the keys it's harder to roll off the diminished 5th to the perfect 5th and vice versa, which should make me not like it, yet I do.

Maybe I just like Straight No Chaser so much I'd be willing to improvise over the version I learned for days and days.

For key signatures, since I perform rap vocals (in this fandom at least), 99.9% of any song I will ever work with is in 4/4, but I do love me some 7/4. It really puts some serious intensity into songs when done well, without relying on common practices (electric guitar + strings, "epic" choir stabs, VI-VII-i progression, and so on). Not to say said common practices are bad, just that I'd rather hear unique things, if you catch my drift.

7/4 Uhm? Like that piece "Cantilene et danse" by Marc Eychenne? Because if so that is one of my favourite pieces

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... JNSk#t=367