Major songs sung/played in minor key: evokes different emotions.
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Music General
Garou — 6 years ago(August 27, 2019 05:26 AM)
Songs in major key sound happy, energetic, inspirational, and blissful.
Songs in a minor key sound grim and haunting. Dark. Sad.
Minor key scores are used for horror scores: Psycho and Halloween are prominent examples.
Hurt by Nine Inch Nails and later Johnny Cash is an obvious minor song. Heavy Metal songs are in minor key.
Eyes Wide Shut: obvious minor. Disney songs: all major. Hero by Mariah Carey: I don't even have to look that one up, sometimes you just know. If it sounds uplifting and inspirational, it's major. If you're playing a minor key song on a piano, you're going to have to use the black keys. It's unavoidable.
Each major key has a minor equivalent. C major's minor relative minor would be A minor. It's the 1st black key after 2 white keys down. So anyone can convert any minor song to major or vice versa.
Here are some popular major key songs changed to minor key: it's the same song, but notice how the feeling it evokes in us is much different:
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