What's Your Favorite Key?

[JPsuff]

I like playing in a lot of different keys but like most people I like some more than others.

My favorites are: Am, Em, Bm & Dm.
(Yes, I favor minor keys).

So what keys are your favorites?

 

[PapaRaptor]

Well, the keys to my utility shed would rank right up there!

 

[JPsuff]

Well, the keys to my utility shed would rank right up there!

OK... so what pitch do they sound like when jangled?

 

[tommytubetone]

I like the way E and F sound playing in box 1 with a 6th string root. Then you have a lot of root notes to work with without getting too high on the fretboard. Go figure.

 

[CaptainMoto]

I usually grab an E or Am but I think my vocal range fits D better

For those interested:
I created four albums of blues backing tracks spanning all keys major & minor.
All tracks are extended play and the albums run at least one hour.
Click on the "My Music Link" in my signature, you might find them helpful.

 

[Jay Dee]

Am for me. I like to start in the middle and work both ways.

 

[Silicon Valley Tom]

The key to my wife's heart!

Tom

 

[PapaBear]

G and A and their relative minors, I like C and E as well

 

[ChrisGSP]

The Key to the Highway

 

[sdbrit68]

G

 

[Crossroads]

Dm of course. The saddest of all keys.

 

[JohnHurley]

Well its hard to argue against E and E minor pentatonic ...

Why E? Shes got a black cat bone!!

 

[Paleo]

Key West.

 

[piebaldpython]

E and A....majors and minors.

 

[sdbrit68]

Well its hard to argue against E and E minor pentatonic ...

Why E? Shes got a black cat bone!!

while you have a point...............I wil counter with every awesome hair metal ballad was G-Cadd9

 

[MikeS]

They are all pretty much the same to me except E I'm not a fan of open E. My brain has to do too much work with the open strings.
That said I mostly play in A, G and sometimes Bm.

 

[Boysie]

The key to my Harley

 

[Zzzen Dog]

I don't really have a favorite, at least not one for "all time". My current favorite is D, primarily because of the song I was working on before year-end "Please Come Home for Christmas". John Mayer does a really bluesy version in the key of D, that I liked. Also started to work my various scales, arpeggios and chords into a CAGED format and D, lets me start from the "C", at the low-end of the neck.

 

[david moon]

for guitar A : I IV V is A D E.How many Tom Petty or Mellencamp or AC/DC tunes are in this key? (Petty might have capoed up a few frets to play in F) but the chord voicings are E A D G

 

[Crossroads]

I'm not a fan of open E. .

Whaaaaaaaaat???????

Open E Rules