Never Make Me Cry key signature

[aleuzzi]

Originally Posted by David

Yeah, I don’t have any idea what key she’s actually playing on the album. But what everybody says here is logical — she can transpose (although not on an acoustic piano), she can practice the song in D flat, or the track can be sped up.

the only other thing I have to add is that it’s easy to play this I-IV-V song in D flat. Nothing very tricky is going on keyboard-wise. Also, you can see her playing it aboard her boat in the 1979 documentary. If you have that handy, can you tell? It’s really a simple keyboard thing (as are many of her tunes, even her best tunes). I was watching McCartney do a piano video the other day, and he shows how his best musical ideas just come out of very basic chords built on the white keys!

I rewatched the Tusk doc where she is singing NMMC on her yacht. It sounds a half-step down from the album—I could be wrong. But it sounds like a (boozy) C.

[secret love]

Originally Posted by aleuzzi

I rewatched the Tusk doc where she is singing NMMC on her yacht. It sounds a half-step down from the album—I could be wrong. But it sounds like a (boozy) C.

Have you considered the simple possibility that Christine was singing it off key? Lord knows it wouldn’t be the first time, just saying! Let’s remember the Tusk album version isn’t auto tuned like BuckVie and their latter work undoubtedly was

[aleuzzi]

Originally Posted by secret love

Have you considered the simple possibility that Christine was singing it off key? Lord knows it wouldn’t be the first time, just saying! Let’s remember the Tusk album version isn’t auto tuned like BuckVie and their latter work undoubtedly was

I said “boozy” C—alluding to her being drunk on the boat.

That said, the vocal performance on the album is not at all off-key. All the instrumentation and her voice are pitch perfect there.

So, no: I did not and do not consider the album vocal off key.