{"id":49904,"date":"2025-08-16T21:15:54","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T21:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=49904"},"modified":"2025-08-16T21:15:55","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T21:15:55","slug":"music-minor-key","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/music-minor-key\/","title":{"rendered":"Music: minor key"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about music: the tutor mentions the key of a song.<\/h2>\n<p>\nI forget what song it was, but someone mentioned one time how ironic it was that a bright, cheery pop song was actually in a minor key. Minor keys are sometimes explained to music students as sounding sad, while major ones are thought to be bright and cheery.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe other night I was listening to &#8220;Shake Your Booty&#8221; by KC and the Sunshine Band. It came to mind that, indeed, it seemed to be in a minor key. Indeed, &#8220;Shake Your Booty&#8221; is, apparently, in B flat minor. Yet, one might be pressed to find a happier-sounding, more upbeat song.<\/p>\n<p>\nSource:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tunebat.com\/Info\/-Shake-Shake-Shake-Shake-Your-Booty-KC-The-Sunshine-Band\/3Is0Nnz59rzbNZE491URlY\">tunebat.com<\/a><\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about music: the tutor mentions the key of a song. I forget what song it was, but someone mentioned one time how ironic it was that a bright, cheery pop song was actually in a minor key. Minor keys &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/music-minor-key\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Music: minor key<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[465],"tags":[3748],"class_list":["post-49904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-kc-and-the-sunshine-band"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49904"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49906,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49904\/revisions\/49906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}