The importance of tuned snare to the song key

Lefteris mentioned this many years ago.


Alexandra too.


(There is a mistake on this post. The example song Be my Baby - Spector is in E major and not in F major. The snare sounds close to E).


An example:


Be my baby - Spector, in F major


The snare drum although a percussion instument is strongly giving the impression of the note F. It is a constant note or pedal note as after the drum is in tune with the song key it stays there.


Being in tune with the song sounds great and creates all those interesting intervals with (from) bass. For example when the bass is C the interval is a 4th reminding of the beautiful 4,5 to 3,5 chord used so much by Antonio Vivaldi. On Vivaldi music one can encounter for example bass F going to C going to F. Chord notes A,C,F going to (G,C,F and quickly to G,C,E while bass is still C) to A,C,F.


Bibliography:


Bach bass rules:
https://normanschmidt.net/scores/bachjs-general_bass_rules.pdf


Harmony - Piston