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Is C# the same as Db? That shit fucks me up. Is Obama half black or half white? Which color would be # and what color would be b?......................................................................................."Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue." Bm

I'm a fan of C#m, coupled with an A. Allows for that nice major/minor solo thing.

In C#, all the chords of its major scale cannot be mapped to open chords in standard tuning. Would it be then the less "guitar-friendly" key of them all?

That's what I mean. Horns are tuned to flat pitches not sharp pitches. Why don't the tuner manufacturers understand this?

Pointless factoid: Until, I think, the late 18th or early 19th Century, the sharps and flats (say C# and Db) were actually slightly different pitches. There were keyboard instruments with two sets of skinny black keys, dual-manual pianos, one for the sharps, one for the flats, etc. I suspect that the piano makers got pissed off and banged a few heads together to resolve it all. And I can see why keyboardists (being a little bit of one meself) would prefer playing in, say Db. You can play a pentatonic major or minor scale starting from any black key, using only the black keys. And it's right handy if you're in a "horn band", seeing as how all the horns are pitched to "black key" keys. Oh and that bit there is why "Johnny B Goode" is actually in Eb. Chuck's piano player, Johnnie Johnson had decades of big band/jump band experience and Chuck was no stranger to horn bands either.

C# and Db played as a single note sound exactly the same but are not the same in the context of written music. And I hate that tuners always show notes as being sharp vs flat. I tune down to E flat not to D sharp. I mean come on people. There is only one major key that has sharp in the name but there are 5 major keys that have flat in the name. Must be a bunch of baroque dudes playing études in G# minor harmonic that build those things.

Did you sell that guitar? Was it the white Daytona?

Lol... keyboards are SO limited compared to guitars.

Listening to the new Manowar: Lord of Steel and Megadeth: Capitol Punishment