The key of a song is the key to so much more! Understanding this, and how to use piano scales to improve your playing, is actually very freeing. Once you get the hang of it. Until that point, it’s all pretty scary. But that’s why I’m here: to make piano scales and keys way less confusing.

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🕒 TIMESTAMPS 🕒
00:00 A conversation with a piano player who looks suspiciously familiar
00:18 Introduction
00:26 How important are scales and keys?
01:13 The key of a song
01:40 What the key tells us
02:10 Demonstrating major scales
03:49 Reviewing the three things a song’s key tells us
04:25 Examples
08:44 Popular song progressions
09:55 How understanding scales and keys empowers you
10:16 Real-life application
11:29 Home chords
13:08 Spicing things up
15:05 My music theory series
15:34 Wrapping up

What if I walked up to you at your piano one day… and told you to play in the key of A, and to make sure you use a VI, V, IV, I progression on the bridge. Would you (a) freak out because you don’t know what I’m talking about, (b) make something up and hope I wouldn’t notice the difference, (c) calmly play along because you’ve already learned this stuff, and you know that what I’m talking about is just basic music theory, piano scales and keys.

Or maybe you call the police because there’s a stranger in your house. Fair enough.😂
The point is, do you know how to handle piano scales and keys in real life? Because in my experience, a whole lot of former piano students actually freeze up or try to fake their way through when it comes to piano scales and keys. (Confession, I used to be one of them!)
You may or may not know this, but every song you’ve ever heard is in a “key.” Have you ever heard someone talk about what key a song is in?

For any song, knowing the key of the song will tell us three important pieces of information:

-What 7 notes are best for that song (this is also called a “scale”)
-What chords are most likely to be in that song
-“Home” aka the chord that naturally makes the most sense to return to at the end of the song (and maybe even within each song section)

That’s what people who do know piano scales and understand the keys of songs are talking about when they mention that:

-“Imagine” by John Lennon is in the of C
-“Bohemian Rhapsody” by Queen is in the key of B♭m
-“Wonderwall” by Oasis is in the key of F#m

The examples don’t really matter: if you understand the concept then you could do this for any song. The important thing is to learn how to use this information to your advantage when you’re actually playing.

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