How many keys are there? Twelve or thirteen?
Anonymous
8/20/2025, 1:37:06 AM
No.127451186
>>127451154 (OP)
Practically indefinite if you count microtones. 12 unique in Western theory.
Anonymous
8/20/2025, 2:53:16 AM
No.127452080
>keys
Don't worry about that, you'll get your cut. Now get on the boat and make the drop off
Anonymous
8/20/2025, 7:09:45 AM
No.127454342
>>127457166
Why thirteen? Technically there are 30 (7 sharps 7 flats and 1 all natural, multiply by 2 for both major and minor keys) but practically around 24 of them are used often.
Anonymous
8/20/2025, 2:37:00 PM
No.127457166
>>127457202
>>127458232
>>127454342
Technically youre a putz because "major" and "minor" are already arbitrary. By using your logic, there are actually millions of keys, not just 30
Anonymous
8/20/2025, 2:56:34 PM
No.127457302
Depends on what you are willing to define as a key. The distinction between the major and minor keys and the modes is purely arbitrary in modern music theory, so maybe 7 keys per tone in the 12 tone scale. The fact that many of them are the same collection of tones isn't relevant because the major/minor system has relative keys anyway. And that's before we enter music theory pedantry final boss mode and have someone argue about enharmonics not being the same note or whatever.
Anonymous
8/20/2025, 5:30:27 PM
No.127458232
>>127457166
Most musicians think in major and minor and not modal nonsense like mixolydian or phrygian or whatever you want to talk about, leave that to the jazzers. The distinction of using major and minor as two scale types is useful.
Anonymous
8/20/2025, 5:37:32 PM
No.127458287
