Re: Question for someone who plays guitar
The easiest way to tell the key(with rare exception), is to look at the last note of the melody. It will usually be the same. Also, it really doesn't matter.
I played acoustic blues guitar for about 25 years, mostly fingerpicking or slide.
It is important to know scales, but hearing what the song is doing is even more so. Train your ear to pick up sixth, seventh, and ninth notes. Minor tones.. things like that.
Unless you are playing all bar chords, certain chords allow you to pull things off more easily than others. After a while, you will be able to listen to a song and not only know what you need to play, but what the easiest key will be to play it in.
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