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[Little Nicki]

Originally Posted by The Tower

"Landslide" is still played in its original key of E flat. On the Tusk tour, she raised the key to G, because her voice was so thrashed she couldn't hit the low notes.

Ya got me there. I don't actually own the white album, so I was going by old (probably tusk tour!) bootlegs I had heard that were much higher, assuming that was the original key.

Originally Posted by The Tower

"Beautiful Child" was played live in its original key of C.

Incorrect! For all I know she may have done in in C at some point, but on Live in Boston and with the orchestra it was a half step down. Lindsey was playing a guitar that was tuned down, so he was playing what looked like a C chord, but he was fooling you!

Originally Posted by The Tower

Changing keys isn't as easy as it sounds (no pun intended). Changing keys to odd intervals can make the song sound completely different, even if it's just a half step. Oddly enough, changing the key of a song by a half step in a lot of cases drastically alters the way the song "sounds".

I think that artists should always avoid changing keys, unless it is for a complete change of the artistic landscape of the song (like when Joni Mitchell reworked her tunes for an orchestra). If one is just changing the key because they can't (or don't want to) sing the higher (or lower) notes, then don't bother.

Hence my "preserving the music the way it was and should be" comment. Though it's not at all hard to do, it just makes it sound different. Anybody can push the transpose button on a keyboard or tune the guitar down. And since you didn't even notice that Beautiful Child was tuned down, it goes to show it can be done quite successfully!