Author: Johnny Galaga
Date: 2019-09-20 03:33
I'm talking about keys like concert A Major, E Major, and D Major. The technique is really hard, especially if you have to play anything fast. I remember in high school how a lot of players would mess up and hit wrong notes in those kind of keys. It wasn't often that we had songs in keys like that, but when we did, there was always that initial shock of seeing like 5 or 6 sharps or flats in the key signature going, 'oh crap', that's gonna be hard to play.
Rock band style instruments don't seem to have the same issue. They can play or sing in C Major or C# Major and their technique isn't any more difficult either way. I wish it was like that for us. Like sometimes you hear guitar players talk about playing in E or A, and I'm like dang, that's hard. But they never seem to think it's a big deal. They have no idea what we go through.
I believe concert E Major is often used in rock/pop songs because a 4-string bass guitar has E as the lowest note on standard tuning. But I know everytime I hear a rock or pop song in one of those tough keys, I actually get a little stressed thinking about how hard that would be to play in.
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