How to Use this Information

This is very useful and important information for the healing music musician. Establishing the correct key can be the difference between a nice song and one that does its intentional work of clearing and raising vibration. Choose your key based on where you want the song to focus within the physical body, or based on the emotional or energetic issue at hand. Then decide whether it is major (opening /expansive /freeing /stimulating feelings of joy and completion /positive /resolving /uplifting), or minor (grounding /pulling inward and downward /reflective /cleansing /emotionally releasing /draws listener into sympathetic, empathetic position). Now you have the key elements in place.

Remembering how specific melodies can be purposeful in creating a chakra stimulation/cleansing sequence, explore the scales, modes, and ethnic permutations to determine which works. Know also that you can change scales, major/minor, and even keys during the course of your creation, depending on your intention.

Additional decisions will be necessary, of course. We shall be exploring those elements that underlie those decisions in lessons to come.

In the meantime, get familiar with all keys in both major and minor. Pay close attention to how you feel when you use them. Begin to sensitize yourself to feel them in your body. Once you have this, begin to explore and apply scales to your creation. Make a recording of a chord pattern for 12 bars in each key. Play each scale over it. Notice what they each do. How do you feel when you hear them? Where do you feel them? Do you have images that show up when you play each? Which are the most meaningful for you? Make notes. This will be very relevant as your knowledge of healing music grows.