I like playing in minor keys.
I rarely play chords the way you should starting with the first as the more dominant lowest note, especially on a keyboard, often out of laziness because I often only have to move one finger in the middle to change it and then the lowest key does become the first. As I always played chords broken this confused some who wanted to pick with me when I was still playing with others.
On a guitar I am not sure what scales I am using when I improvise. Pentatonic with blue notes obviously but I also like minor seconds and major seconds so I end up with a nonatonic scale.
But that is only when I am deliberately focussing on it. I vary a lot from there too.
On a keyboard I can't bend strings so the lowered fifth and seventh (and sometimes major second before third) are played a fraction before that actual fifth and seventh and released just in time so it sounds like bended up, blue NOT brown note
These days I might play keyboard only 2-3 times a year so they do sound brown until I get the knack again.
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