Always stuck in minor

Philtre

Use the Lydian mode.

Lydian, oh! Lydian, say have you met Lydian
Oh! Lydian, the tattooed, er, mode...

Veganic

Exercise: Try writing a country song about how you were always stuck in minor.
Fun major key songs: you just wrote one.


Try changing you existing minor songs to major.  Youtube has loads of examples.

Modellista

Veganic said:

Exercise: Try writing a country song about how you were always stuck in minor.
Fun major key songs: you just wrote one.

^ Brilliant!

flying_pie

@viz is it fair to say the home note can often be debatable? We all know about the passionate debate about Sweet Home Alabama... And Rocking In The Free World is another which could be argued as Em or G maj depending on how you view the melody

viz

Absolutely, and when it’s ambiguous that’s fine. (RITFE doesn’t quite fall into that category though - it’s in E minor for the verses, and modulates to G major for the choruses. The melody’s almost the same, but the harmony tells you that. And then it modulates to A doesn’t it? From memory)