---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment In a message dated 10/20/01 10:27:57 AM Central Daylight Time,=20 davidlovepianos@earthlink.net (David Love) writes: > My point is that for most jazz pianists that I know, an altered V chord in > the key of C should have the same character as and altered V chord in the > key of Ab. . 26 years ago, when I was a senior in college, I spent the year abroad in=20 France. The group of other college students I traveled with went first to=20 Paris. We all were taken to the famous boulevard called "L'Avenue des Champ= s=20 Elys=E9es". The Arc de Triomphe, all the exquisite shops and other places t= o=20 see that were new and different to us were not what attracted a sizable=20 number of our group. What place was it that most of the group wanted to visit? The Mc Donald's=20 restaurant. Why? Just to see if the hamburgers there tasted the *same* as=20 they do in the US. And to their astonished glee and surprise, they did. =20 They talked about that fact at length. I declined to go because I already knew what to expect and didn't want the=20 same thing that had already been served 100 million times before. Of course= ,=20 I was viewed as the *oddball* but I didn't care. I selected a pastry shop=20 that had items I had never seen nor tasted before. Most of the other group=20 thought my choice was *wierd*. It took them much longer, after they had=20 settled down into the university town (where there was no Mc Donald's) befor= e=20 they discovered the infinite delights of a French Pastry shop. To some people, the same bland consistency, day in and day out is what they=20 want. It is what they are comfortable with. Others want variety and=20 adventure. In music, Jazz or otherwise, my belief has always been that ther= e=20 should be a *reason* to be in a particular key and there should be a *reason= *=20 to modulate. What would be the purpose of playing in any particular key or=20 even modulating if there is no distinction between them? To me, the choice of keys and modulating while in ET, particularly in the=20 Jazz medium gives about as much satisfaction as choosing the Mc Donald's=20 further down the street rather than the one close by just for a change of=20 scenery. Bill Bremmer RPT Madison, Wisconsin ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/c9/ad/7d/33/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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