![]() ![]() The F# Minor Chord Position on the Guitar: Just One Fret Up From F Minor ![]() The resentment felt by F-sharp minor won’t go off and rot by itself it insists that you look at it, listen to its tale of woe, and do something about it. F-sharp minor differs from last week’s E-flat/D-sharp minor in that in addition to being in despair, it insists on dragging you down with it. We hope you’re not yet tired of the “doom and gloom” keys, because here’s another one. ![]() We’ll also jam through a few F-sharp minor songs and chord progressions. We’ll be looking at F-sharp minor ‘s history and its use in popular music and whether or not it’s hard to play it on the guitar. Handel and Mozart only touched the key on occasion. The only famous symphony written in this key is Haydn’s Farewell Symphony. In the classical world the key of F-sharp minor is a rarity. ![]() Popular Songs in the Key of F-Sharp: Yankin’ Yer Heart AroundĪ Classical Rarity Haydn used F-sharp minor for his Farewell Symphony- and then said good-bye.Chords and Common Chord Progressions in the Key of F-Sharp Minor.Theory and Practice: The Pattern of the F-Sharp Minor Scale Explained.The F# Minor Chord Position on the Guitar: Just One Fret Up From F Minor.This is why today we’re going to leave G-flat minor on the shelf to gather dust and just talk about F-sharp minor. The F-sharp minor key signature is comparatively simple, with only three sharps just like its relative major, A major, which is also easy to figure out. (True, if you type “Gbm” into Uberchord’s chord finder you’ll see a chord, but you’ll notice that the chord’s notes are named F#, A, and C#- not Gb, Bbb, and Db as they would be written in the key of G-flat minor.) The key of F-sharp minor was meant for lines like Linkin Park’s “I’ve opened up these scars / I’ll make you face this / I’ve pulled myself apart / I’ll make you face this now,” from their song “Bleed it Out.” We musicians are a stoic lot, but this kind of pointless complication isn’t our cup of Earl Grey, which is why you’ll probably never see this key signature, ever, unless you Google it. If this tone series is written as G-flat minor we have to use nine flats, which really clutters up the space in front of the clefs and makes it hard to figure out what the notes are (e.g., Bbb is actually an A, but you don’t want to have to stop playing to figure that out). F-sharp minor and G-flat minor are both names for the same series of tones. ![]()
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