Originally Posted by: B_DylanI can recognise what a key a song is in sometimes but where do you go from there? Is the next step to identify what scale its in because I just tend to assume everything is in the major scale.
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If it's in the key of C you'd play a Cmajor scale. If it's in the key of Aminor you'd play an Aminor scale. That's what key is. It's based off the tonic scale.