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Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2019-09-20 06:45
Johnny Galaga wrote:
> I once heard Concert Bb is considered a hard key for singers to
> sing in for some reason. True or false?
Depends on the singer. Voices have natural register breaks. A lot of vocal study involves learning to negotiate those breaks to produce a consistent sound even as the singer crosses from one to the other register (much like playing over the breaks on a clarinet). If the natural break in a singer's voice occurs in an awkward place in a scale, it can be enough to make a trained vocalist ask to move the key up or down a half step to place a critical interval either completely above or completely below the break. If I remember (from voice study that ended 50 years ago), many tenors and sopranos have a break between A and Bb, making the "si-do" leading tone interval awkward in Bb. A#-B (in B Major) would be much easier (both are above the break) and not out of range.
Also, singers seem to prefer "brighter" keys, and B is "brighter" than Bb.
Karl
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Johnny Galaga |
2019-09-20 03:33 |
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Paul Aviles |
2019-09-20 03:41 |
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Johnny Galaga |
2019-09-20 03:44 |
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Paul Aviles |
2019-09-20 05:25 |
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Johnny Galaga |
2019-09-21 02:27 |
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Re: Keys That Are Hard To Play In new |
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kdk |
2019-09-20 06:45 |
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Johnny Galaga |
2019-09-21 02:30 |
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Philip Caron |
2019-09-21 03:12 |
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GBK |
2019-09-21 07:37 |
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Paul Aviles |
2019-09-21 08:58 |
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Tom H |
2019-09-23 06:10 |
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