Re: Need Practice Regime
play songs with a flat instead of a sharp even though a sharp for the lower note fits (can anyone explain to me why they do that)
It's an ease of use thing. If you go one way around the circle of fifths (do you know the circle of fifths?), each new scale adds one sharp each time. If you go the other way, each new scale adds one flat each time. They eventually meet in the middle at the "scary end" ( ) of the circle. But if you keep going around the circle by adding sharps, you start getting to scale with double sharps (notes with two sharps moving the note up a whole step). Same with flats. It's much easier to think flats than sharps at that point.
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Andy
"Not to know the mandolin is to argue oneself unknown...." --Clara Lanza, 1886
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