Your favourite key for twiddling

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Re: Your favourite key for twiddling

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Aquila Rosso wrote:When I started out it was nearly always Em pentatonic.
Now days its either Am/C , Dm or Bm/D Natural Minor and Pentatonic and I like twiddlin' on Harmonic Minor and diminished scales.
For playing more blues-rock twiddles, I'm liking the A Major Pentatonic in the F# Minor position with the F# melodic minor notes spinkled in for extra twiddliness.
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Em, hard out.

No wait.

G major. At the 12th fret.






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key? :shock: :?:

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Re: Your favourite key for twiddling

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don't really have any favourites, usually gravitate towards E,A and D for any fingerpicking stuff for obvious reasons.. but other than that I tend to treat all keys equally ;)

except for Bb and Eb. They can fuck right off. :D

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slash-ed wrote:Em, hard out.

No wait.

G major. At the 12th fret.






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Re: Your favourite key for twiddling

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Em has previously been the key I'd go to most often, but more recently I'm all over the show, depending on how I'm feeling, given how different keys feel to me. Most common are probably A, Bb, C, and D. Generally minor, but Bb tends to get a bunch of blue and major 3rds thrown in as well.
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Re: Your favourite key for twiddling

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actually, I prefer to widdle about in keys I can sing in or are more comfortable with now. Just in case it develops.
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am/C for teh open chords, like a bit bm pentatonic, and g and d dorian for some reason
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I'm keen on learning B# & E# at some stage :mrgreen:
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jeremyb wrote:I'm keen on learning B# & E# at some stage :mrgreen:
Lydian Dominant is your best bet for those two keys ;)
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C and D mainly.

C Byzantine and D hirajoshi 2 are seem to be my current favourites for random twiddling

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Re: Your favourite key for twiddling

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right now?... hmmm.


G for chords


Bb for mucking around with solos

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Zaulkin wrote:Bb for mucking around with solos
Hmm, not a key I would be too comfortable in.

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Re: Your favourite key for twiddling

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F# harmonic minor. It's all I know.
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Re: Your favourite key for twiddling

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Eb minor cause that's what I tune to 8) Bminor is another one

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