Just checked that myself. Yes, on Welcome Back, the first section of KE9 1st is in the lower key F but after "fight tomorrow" the key moves up to A flat like the studio version and stays there for the "welcome back my friends" song.
Just checked that myself. Yes, on Welcome Back, the first section of KE9 1st is in the lower key F but after "fight tomorrow" the key moves up to A flat like the studio version and stays there for the "welcome back my friends" song.
^This is correct.
I think the instrumental 2nd impression was in the studio key but I don't recall.
The 3rd impression was entirely downtuned, from memory.
I can totally see that. Similar to playing string instruments in alternate tunings, you can really mess with 'yer brain 🧠.Originally Posted by battema
It's a little jarring for sure (thankfully I'm somewhere between relative and perfect so I don't get twitchy as often as I might). I'm pretty sure Tony Banks DOESN'T have perfect pitch; I think I read somewhere that when they transpose things down he simply updates his keyboards so his parts remain the same. I tried doing that once and it was a mental divide by zero; my fingers hit notes, my ears heard OTHER notes and kept trying to direct my hands to the keys that my ears THOUGHT they should be playing
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