But there are only four notes in that spot that are outside of the C-C' range: three D's (two of them fairly quick) and an E (rather quick) – normally too high to consider for a congregation.
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That puts the start of the chorus higher than consideration of the range alone would recommend. Take, for example, the hymn "Victory in Jesus." It is often notated, played, and sung in the key of G. Sometimes the sound of the song and the energy it generates will be important enough to keep the song in a slightly higher key. When choosing a key for group-singing, the range is the first consideration, but not the only one. Think of the Song's Energy and Its Purposeįinally, you must consider the energy of the song. Think of it as the "Amazon" of the music world. In fact, there you can find just about every kind of music that exists. A Great Music SourceĪ great source for Christian music, for soloists, instrumentalists, choirs, and more, is Sheet Music Plus. Therefore, they are often the most flexible at working around all of these other considerations and developing a workable key along with other musicians. A coda here: keyboard players of all types are often better at transposing to different keys than other instrumentalists are. Later I learned that the organist there always transposes to flat keys. Since we were in the middle of a service, I couldn’t ask anyone about it, so I just stopped playing.
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I was playing piano along with an organ in worship, and I heard the most awful, just awful, tones coming from the instruments! I was playing what the hymnal said. I learned this little bit (about keyboardists) the hard way. Some pianists (and by extension organists and keyboardists) prefer flat keys too. In Ab, the range covers Ab below middle C up to treble Eb, with most of the notes ranging from C to C'. No matter what key it is played in or sung in, it will have an atrocious range, so the problem with that song is to find the key where MOST of the notes fit the best congregational range, and where the lowest and the highest notes are more or less acceptable – that is in the key of Ab, which is the key most hymnals use for it. It is notorious for having an unsingable range: a span of twelve diatonic tones – an octave and a half.
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The opposite extreme is the national anthem ("Oh, say can you see"). These keys are not equally amenable to congregational singing and to guitar accompaniment, but the notes do all lie within a good congregational range. So, if we follow the principle of observing "range," we can find six different keys that would allow five consecutive notes to be sung in the congregation-friendly range between C’s: the major keys of C, Db, D, Eb, E and F. The old praise chorus "Sanctuary" has a range of only five notes. Just look at a couple of extreme examples.