Taking Piano Lesson

[Aje]

I prolly misused the term perfect pitch.

Basically I can identify the notes with little to know effort from a sample etc. or replay a melody in usually seconds, but I can't just call out the notes with a keyboard.

I just don't know the actual scales I'm using or what the chords are called, or how to identify the key. I think the key is really just the root note right? the one the melody loops on?

All I really 'know' is the 12 notes.

But yea I can't hear a song and say that's c minor.

But I can replay that same song on a basic level real quickly.

But yea on the scale of things I SUCK at keys

Edit: for instance that beat where you said I might have a history with keys with the organs or whatever.

I just randomly played that shyt with no idea what I was playing exactly. I still don't know lo.

how can you suck at something when you've never been formally trained? Then I suck at Mandarin, archery, and hip-replacement surgery.

You're not going to be Rachmaninov overnight. The scale exercises are all about reps. Like someone said earlier, it's all about muscle memory and building your finger muscles.

The key of a song is the tonic - the "home note." Sometimes, though, a song can modulate into another key, but most of the time the song will modulate back to its original key prior to completion of the piece.

 

[Aje]

And to build on the "key" definition, it's not just the home note. When you're in the key of, say, G major, then you have the major third (B), major sixth (E), and major seventh (F#). However, if you were in G natural minor, then you would lower the third the sixth and the seventh. You would have one sharp accidental on your sheet music for G major. The key, essentially, is just the rules for that set of notes. But they can be broken with flats double flats etc.

I'm not a very good teacher. Pardon the poor description.