Hello Christy,
“Them feet-folks from York and Leeds that be always eatin’ cured herrin’s an’ drinkin’ tea an’ lookin’ out to buy cheap jet would creed aught…”
Bram Stoker
I’m sitting here thinking about what you said about mood and keys.
Swapping from standard tuning to dadgad has meant I’ve had to change some of the keys I sing songs in. Lots more in D now… anyway, yes, I’ve noticed changes in the colour of songs (not sure how else to describe it). The biggest one has been Ride On. Somehow I’ve always struggled to pitch it. And before, when it was in E, it felt a kind of earthy brown. Now, in D, the mood has changed, it’s kind of feeling like a very dark blue. The mood has gone “gothic?”. It feels a lot easier to sing. I sang it for the Topic Zoomers and got some comments back saying it sounded different to how they’d heard it before. So they noticed too. Interesting stuff.
A change of key, a change of mood. I hope I get to hear the newly coloured Beeswing in G.
Hello Christy,
“Them feet-folks from York and Leeds that be always eatin’ cured herrin’s an’ drinkin’ tea an’ lookin’ out to buy cheap jet would creed aught…”
Bram Stoker
I’m sitting here thinking about what you said about mood and keys.
Swapping from standard tuning to dadgad has meant I’ve had to change some of the keys I sing songs in. Lots more in D now… anyway, yes, I’ve noticed changes in the colour of songs (not sure how else to describe it). The biggest one has been Ride On. Somehow I’ve always struggled to pitch it. And before, when it was in E, it felt a kind of earthy brown. Now, in D, the mood has changed, it’s kind of feeling like a very dark blue. The mood has gone “gothic?”. It feels a lot easier to sing. I sang it for the Topic Zoomers and got some comments back saying it sounded different to how they’d heard it before. So they noticed too. Interesting stuff.
A change of key, a change of mood. I hope I get to hear the newly coloured Beeswing in G.
Rebecca