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Hello, I've been playing for years but just now I am making a strong effort to understand the theory behind the playing? What key is Pink Houses by John Mellencamp in? I would initially think that it is in G Maj since that is where it starts and resolves to but the F does not fit. For G Maj shouldn’t it have F# instead of F? My 2nds guess would be C or Am since it has all the chords from that key but it never really resolves to a C chord and the Am chord is not even in the song.
Thanks for looking and hopefully not laughing! :-)
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It's in G. The F doesn't need to be in the G scale. The D is.
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I'm pretty sure it's the key of G Major, in the blues scale of G Major the 3rd -5th & 7th notes of the scale are flattened. Since the 7th note of the G Major scale is F#, you'd flatten the 7th note to F. No other notes are sharp in the key, and the notes for the F Major chord are F-A-C, so the F Major chord would diffently work in the key of G. Great tune, hope this was some help to ya.
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