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Re: {Theory} What key is this?

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#1 · November 8, 2003, 12:04 pm

Posted by: joconnor <joconnor@...>

At 08:57 AM 11/08/2003 -0800, Mike Noel wrote:
>I'm looking at the chords for "Above All Else". They are
>
>D C G A D
>
>So what key is this? At first I thought it was D (with the G and the A)
>but then we couldn't have the C in that. So maybe it's a Cm. But that
>doesn't sound right. So I thought maybe G with the G C D. But then the A
>throws that off. So maybe it's an Am. Nope, that doesn't sound right
either.
>
>Can someone enlighten me as to what's going on here?

You don't always have to stay in a given key for a song. It's possible to
put a measure in with a chord that brings in notes from outside the key.

In the above case, given that the song starts on D and ends on D, (and that
G and A are the fourth and fifth in D) I would say the song is in D with
just a C chord thrown in tempararily because of some movement in the melody
or the harmony)

Take care,
Jay

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