{"id":1511,"date":"2016-11-12T13:23:28","date_gmt":"2016-11-12T18:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pentecostalmusicians.com\/PMblog\/?p=1511"},"modified":"2016-11-12T13:23:28","modified_gmt":"2016-11-12T18:23:28","slug":"b-is-for-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pentecostalmusicians.com\/PMblog\/?p=1511","title":{"rendered":"B is For BAD!!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: book antiqua,palatino,serif;\">I\u2019ll be candid with you \u2013<strong> I REALLY DON\u2019T LIKE TO PLAY THE KEYBOARD IN THE KEY OF B!\u00a0<\/strong> So, if you think you\u2019re odd because you want to transpose songs to Bb or C instead of B, you can stop being so hard on yourself because <strong>you\u2019re in the majority!!!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: book antiqua,palatino,serif;\">Recently at church, one of my students was playing the keyboard and I was playing organ as we sang \u201cGlorious\u201d in the key of B.\u00a0 Our Pastor had hinted that he would probably lead out into an \u201cold school\u201d chorus immediately after that song.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: book antiqua,palatino,serif;\">Knowing that we could get<em> \u201cstuck\u201d<\/em> playing the \u201cold school\u201d chorus in B, I advised my student to \u201cget out of B and into another key as soon as you can after we sing \u201cGlorious\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0 I didn\u2019t have time to explain WHY.\u00a0 Well\u2014he delayed just a fraction of a second too long and guess what\u2014the Pastor pitched the \u201cold school\u201d song in the Key of B!\u00a0 My poor student just stood there like a deer in headlights and soon turned around and asked me \u201cWhat key are we in?\u201d\u00a0 I just grinned at him and said \u201cWe\u2019re in B!\u201d\u00a0 I didn\u2019t have the heart to tell him \u201cI told you so!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: book antiqua,palatino,serif;\">Fortunately, after playing 100 years, I have been <em>\u201cstuck\u201d<\/em> playing in B many times and I know how to think through the progressions in the Key of B so we made it.\u00a0 <strong>AND<\/strong>\u2014after the first time through the \u201cold school\u201d chorus, I was able to catch the Pastor\u2019s eye and gave a thumbs-up indicating that we needed to raise the song and he nodded.\u00a0 So, we just smoothly moved into the WONDERFUL key of C!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: book antiqua,palatino,serif; text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Two lessons can be learned with this experience<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: book antiqua,palatino,serif;\">Usually an experienced singer will PITCH in the KEY they HEAR being played.\u00a0 So, if you want a song started in a particular key, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>get in that key and allow them time to HEAR that pitch.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span> Most people cannot pitch into another key when they are hearing another key being played.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: book antiqua,palatino,serif;\">Take the time to LEARN to THINK in EVERY KEY\u2014at least the I, IV and V&#8212;<strong>JUST IN CASE!!!<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ll be candid with you \u2013 I REALLY DON\u2019T LIKE TO PLAY THE KEYBOARD IN THE KEY OF B!\u00a0 So, if you think you\u2019re odd because you want to transpose songs to Bb or C instead of B, you can stop being so hard on yourself because you\u2019re in the majority!!! Recently at church, one &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pentecostalmusicians.com\/PMblog\/?p=1511\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">B is For BAD!!!!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-instructional"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pentecostalmusicians.com\/PMblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pentecostalmusicians.com\/PMblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pentecostalmusicians.com\/PMblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pentecostalmusicians.com\/PMblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pentecostalmusicians.com\/PMblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pentecostalmusicians.com\/PMblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1512,"href":"https:\/\/www.pentecostalmusicians.com\/PMblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1511\/revisions\/1512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pentecostalmusicians.com\/PMblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pentecostalmusicians.com\/PMblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pentecostalmusicians.com\/PMblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}