Yesterday I transcribed a Brazilian jazz song by Elaine Elias. It had G7, Csus at the end of the eighth bar, and most times you would expect the next chord would be FMaj7. When I saved the song, BIAB suggested that the key of the song was F major.

The first chord of the song was DMaj7 and the key of the song was actually D major. That next chord wasn’t an F but a B half diminished (m7b5). Surprise.


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