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is it F# major? just is it? oh, i bet it is. surely it must be. why, i simply cannot imagine what else it would be. frankly i don't know what i would do if your favorite key signature *wasn't* F# major. why, i'd be right beside myself. literally, i'd be half a meter to the right. that's how thrown off i would be.
truly, i can remember the days when your favorite key signature was Bb minor, and let's face it, you were always drunk. drinking and drinking, and you always would insist upon transposing everything into Bb minor. it was abominable - especially the "mary had a little lamb" bit -; not all songs are meant for Bb minor.
i think you eventually came to realize this, no? that would explain why you switched your favorite key signature to a# minor, which is basically the same, only more annoying. that's what the "a" is for, after all - the "a" stands for "just plain obnoxious".
shortly thereafter, you quit drinking, and started smoking. that's cool; it's cool to smoke marijuana if you are a fan of a# minor. it's also cool to smoke marijuana, kids, if you just plain *like* marijuana. smoking marijuana is not worse than nuclear weapons or spaceships. in fact, it is much better. marijuana will do more for your intellectual, emotional and spiritual development than nuclear weapons of spaceships ever could hope to.
however, if you don't like marijuana, don't smoke it. likewise with a# minor - if you don't like it, don't smoke marijuana.
it wasn't long after this that you decided that your favorite key signature was R-type mooger. that's when i said, "enough's enough," and took you to rehab, remember? it was about that time that we agreed not to steal each other's collection of barrels.
everything was fine for a while, and i was like, D-CAl, although no one was sure quite what i meant. i can't fault them for this - i wasn't sure myself. nevertheless, i continued to be like, well, you know.
but then you came out of rehab and everything changed. you joined that religious cult, worshippers_of_the_petulant_franciscans. you changed your favorite key signature to D-flat major and it was then that i knew you were crazy. stark, raving crazy. but the real zinger came when you stole all my barrels; i mean, where do you get off?
i figure that you get off in the bedroom like most people. because let's face it, kids, masturbation is perfectly natural. you should masturbate, masturbate, masturbate, and you know what? nothing bad will happen. certainly nothing worse than nuclear weapons. there is no one who can stop you from having regular orgies with yourself except YOU. remember that.
at any rate, i want my barrels back, or else i'm going to steal your vats. this has to stop, my friend. the drugs, the cults, the changing key signatures...you are turning into a serial I.S.T.
don't get me wrong - there is nothing wrong with being a serial I.S.T. granted, it really depends on what that acronym stands for, doesn't it. but that's beside the point. i hired a 3.1415926 to follow you around for a while, and i know that you recently ditched the worshippers_of_the_petulant_franciscans and changed your favorite key signature to F# major.
nice move.
i'm proud of ya'!!!
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[[[a# minor is pretty]]]
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[[[that is, a# minor is pretty hard to draw on blather]]]
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Bb
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f sharp (and a dot, for the blathe)
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karyn
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C# Minor, and B Major. Or the half-tone in between those two.
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C minor
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epitome of incomprehensibility
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If you drop a piano down a coal mine, you get A flat minor...
mwa ha ha
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Incidentally, I don't think A flat minor is ever used because it would mean having 7 flats, when 5 sharps would make more sense.
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A-flat minor at times is more "practical" than G-sharp minor, and the same can be said for A-sharp/B-flat minor, C-flat/B Major, and C-Sharp/D-flat Major.
Is practicality a governing force in such decisions? That depends upon the composer. For my part, I avoid excessive deference to practicality, as it can sap the beauty of things quickly (to me).
Anyway, here's why A# minor might be more practical than B-flat minor (and yes, I realize you were refering to A-flat minor and not G# major):
Different pieces modulate in different directions. If a piece starting in A-sharp minor, say, will have a lot of modulation into a Major harmonic zone upon the fourth, one will soon be working in the perverse key of D-sharp major. In such a situation, it is certainly easier to start in B-flat minor and go to E-flat major.
However, if one starts in A-sharp minor but plans extensive use of minor material on the thirds, it is much easier to cancel a few sharps and use C# minor than to add a zillion flats and use [the perverse key of] D-flat minor, even if one has commenced in B-flat minor.
In general this applies to brief modulations, not extended sections. For extended sections, it is just as easy to change the sig.
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key signatures are so confusing.
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unhinged
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g minor
d minor
a minor
e minor
although i've been liking a major more lately thanks to biber and mozart .
but my voice likes c# natural minor, or c# blues minor.
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gpg
of course...
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no reason
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i like b minor and b flat major
though i have more of a preference for time signatures
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yeah time signatures and guitar chords
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