Originally Posted by eddie1261
The standard joke used to be "Just play everything in C to avoid those black keys." And then up comes a dominant 7th and blows that whole theory up. Are the guys in your performing band theory fluent so if you are playing in F they know 4 fingers means "Go to Bb"? It's such a joy to play with theory strong people. I don't want to have to teach basic basics to 70 year old musicians. I once told a bass player "In the second half of that phrase play a 3rd instead of the root." What was heard in the room next was every one of these.
But in C, the dominant is the G7 ... which is also on only white notes, so you're good to go. laugh

BTW, in Britain we have an expression "That's not cricket", referring of course to the game not the insect, and it means "not playing by the spirit of the game".

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