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Yes, some tunes / songs are "normally" played in certain keys, but that's not a rule of music it may be a key that fits the instrument, or may be just the habit & tradition of the players. Let me approach the answer from a different direction: It makes no difference! Unless you have absolute pitch or are playing along with a recording, you don't need to know the key of the tune to figure out the chords.Ī tune, especially those that are sung, may start on any note and be in any key, especially as needed to fit a singer's voice. but how do you know what key the scale is in? It's something I never could have done nearly as easily without the software, though. I'm pretty bad with theory, mainly due to lack of education, but I have pretty good ears, so this is how I've written arrangements to a lot of tunes for myself. Sometimes actually playing it on my instrument after it's written down helps me discover better ways. The instantaneous playback will tell me right away if what I'm doing works or not, and I make corrections and improvenments as I go. Then I begin fleshing out the chordal structure that it's possible for me to play along with the melody - sometimes it's just double or triple stops along with important melodic notes, and other times it might be chords on the afterbeats when the melody is not heard - in short, whatever works, or seems to. I start by notating the entire melody in a notation program (I finally shelled out money for one - Finale PrintMusic, which I found at the lowest price for around $50 after searching - not a lot of money, but it gave me much more than the freebie ones did). Many of the old tunes I want to learn aren't in books and can be hard to track down in notation. I'm talking about building a tune from scratch, or by ear, and working from there. I just often don't know what chord is needing to be played. But again, I have no trouble hearing where the changes are. But this doesn't explain your first chord, so maybe that wasn't what you did.Good advice. Similarly, your V6 is a major chord built on the fifth half-step of the scale, E. Thus your ii6 is a minor chord built on the second half-step of the scale, C#. (As an explanation of your error, you may have been counting half-steps.
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The remaining two pitches can be in any order, but the order I've given is the smoothest "answer" to this progression: With this knowledge, then, your progression should be what I give below the lowest pitch is always given on the left. A 64 means the chordal fifth is in the bass, putting the chord in "second inversion.".(A similar thought process will address the V6.) A is the root, which means C is the chordal third, so your vi6 chord will actually have C in the bass. So vi6 should have the chordal third in the bass. A 6 indicates the chord is in "first inversion," meaning the pitch a third above the root is in the bass.(Occasionally you might see this written as 53.) So your vi and I chords are in root position. No figured bass at all means the chord is in "root position." In other words, the root of the chord (ie, the Roman numeral number) is the lowest sounding pitch.So, now let's talk about the 6 that shows up occasionally as we said, we call this "figured bass." For triads, there are only three possibilities: (If you ever see a lowercase with a circle next to it, that means diminished.) Thus now we know the chords are A minor, D minor, G major, and C major. Important to know is that uppercase Roman numerals indicate a major chord while lowercase indicates minor. Your chords are thus built on A, D, G, and C. This means that your chord progression of vi6 ii V6 I is based on chords whose roots are scale degrees six, two, five, and one. The Roman numeral is thus the scale degree written in Roman numerals. and B is "scale-degree seven." (The next C is not "scale degree eight," but rather it returns to "scale degree one.") In music we often assign "scale degree numbers" to these pitches, so C is "scale-degree one" in C, D is "scale-degree two,". Now, think through the C major scale: C D E F G A B C. Since your example is in C, this entire post will focus on C major. Let's start with the Roman numeral, which tells you the root. The figured bass (the numbers that occasionally appear to the right of the Roman numeral) that tell you the inversion of the chord (ie, the intervals above the lowest pitch).The Roman numeral itself, which tells you the root of the chord and.Roman numeral notation consists of two parts: