I've had the problem of knowing how to play the melody a song but forgetting what key its in.
So I've been trying to take myself on an exercise of identifying the scale pattern in a tune and go "ah, all those notes are in the D scale that must be in the key of D"
So I took salt creek as an example of a tune that i learned a while ago from this amazing teacher https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2a3IxFjev8g.
This song is throwing me for a loop because its in the key of A but every note that is played is in the D scale.
What I mean is if you start playing D scale starting on the open D string and keep going you hit that G note on the E string that you play in the B part of the tune.
However if you play an A scale starting from the open A string you can see you never hit that G note on the E string in the scale.
I would have guessed that this song is in D but its in A and its confusing me quite a bit!
What bit of theory am i missing? Is there an easier way to identify the key once you've forgotten it? :-D
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