Never Make Me Cry key signature

[David]

Originally Posted by aleuzzi

Anyone have a take on this and/or more knowledge about NMMC’s key (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!