What key are most hard rock songs in?

Eb minor, E minor, D minor are common keys as well as using dropped D tuning (Tool uses this tuning in almost every song I've ever played of theirs) Slightly rarer is open G tuning -sounds really nice tho...
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What key is most rock music in?

Keys are often determined by the instruments that are used in a particular style. Rock is often guitarbased so the key is mostly E, A, D or G. Dancemusic in general is often in C or A minor.
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What key is most metal songs in?

Many of modern black metal songs are in the key of D minor.
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What key are most hit songs in?

Song Keys Ranked By Popularity
  • C Major (17%)
  • D Major (12%)
  • G Major (12%)
  • A Major (10%)
  • E Major (9%)
  • F Major (9%)
  • E♭ Major (7%)
  • B♭ Major (6%)
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What is the darkest sounding key?

Looking at the key of E flat minor we find the blackest of keys, described by Steblin as having “feelings of anxiety and the soul's deepest distress.” Interestingly, and by contrast, Steblin makes a case for A flat major being the key of Death that would have been recognized by composers of the time for that ...
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What is the hardest key to play in?

The most difficult key is C major! In general, the keys that are easiest to learn are simultaneously the least natural for the hand. As a rule of thumb, the more black keys in a given key signature, the more comfortable it will be.
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What key does Drake use?

Drake is written in the key of C♯m.
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What key are rap songs in?

Major Key Examples
  • I C-Major (ceg)
  • ii d-minor (dfa)
  • iii e-minor (egb)
  • IV – F Major (fac)
  • V – G Major (gbd)
  • Vi – a minor (ace)
  • vii – b dimished (bdf)
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Are most songs written in C major?

More than a third of all songs are in one of four keys: G major, C major, D major, and A major. That all of these keys are major keys is unsurprising — with the exceptions of A minor, E minor, and B minor, none of the minor keys were even able to break 4%.
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What scale is most used in metal?

The most used in the most classic metal bands are the major and minor pentatonic, C scales, minor harmonic, and blues scales (it is logical considering that the root of this tree is the blues). A widely used scale is the pentatonic scale. This is the most used scale in guitar solos.
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What scale is best for metal?

Phrygian Dominant Scale

The most famous exotic scale, and one of the best sounds of metal.
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What scale is most rock music?

Pentatonic scales have 5 notes per octave (hence the name) and are arguably the most common among guitarists. The minor pentatonic is used heavily in blues and rock, with its shape being one of the easiest to learn.
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What scale is used in rock music?

The most commonly used scales in rock music are the following: Blues Scale, Minor Pentatonic Scale, Major Pentatonic Scale, Major Blues Scale, Natural Minor Scale, and the Dorian Mode.
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What scales are used for rock solos?

A pentatonic scale is a scale that has 5 notes per octave. The minor pentatonic scale is typically the first scale guitarists learn to solo with and is very commonly used to form solos in rock, blues, and other popular styles.
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Do rappers need to be on key?

Actual rapping is normally not in any key, and some rap and hip hop has no singing in it. For some rap and hip-hop, the versus are not sung on any specific pitch but the chorus is. Two things that make hip hop and rap vocals unique are: The prevalence of obvious "auto-tune" or pitch correction on sung parts.
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What chords are used in trap?

For a typical trap sound, we'd recommend a mix of both brass and 808 anchoring down the root notes.
  • Alternate progression 1: C#m-Em-A (V-VII-III)
  • Alternate progression 2: D-E-B (VI-VII-V)
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Does hip hop use chords?

Any genre of music that has a melody contains chord progressions. Even if that melody is looped, or unaccompanied (like a chant) it can be used to create chords around it. Unlike pop music, hip hop isn't particularly known for it's chord progressions.
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What tempo is God's plan?

God's Plan is a moody song by Drake with a tempo of 77 BPM. It can also be used double-time at 154 BPM. The track runs 3 minutes and 19 seconds long with a G key and a major mode. It has average energy and is very danceable with a time signature of 4 beats per bar.
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Are most songs in major or minor?

Note that most popular songs are in a major key. If the song sounds dark and gloomy, uses mostly minor chords and generally comes to rest on a minor chord, it's probably a minor key.
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Why does E Minor have so many songs?

because E is the lowest/"heaviest" note you can play in standard tuning, and most metal songs sound heavy so they use it alot. Um, no it isnt. In metalcore C minor would probably be the most commonly used key, or perhaps D Minor.
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What key do most singers sing in?

To Find the Key, First Find the Range

But the idea is the same. He said that most people—all voices—can sing fairly comfortably in the range from middle C to the C' above (for men, it's the full octave lower, of course).
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Which key is hardest to sing?

F is by far the hardest key to sing in.
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What key are most country songs in?

Many country songs don't even have a chorus! To top it all off, most of the tunes are limited to the major keys G, A, C, D, E, and F, and because all of the chords in the I-IV-V-I (1-4-5-1 in Nashville) progression are major, there are no minor chords in the basic structure.
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