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Originally Posted by Stratrat
Correct me if I'm wrong guys, but isn't stuff like that where the "chord tones" approach would come in handy? I mean, it would completely eliminate having to worry about "fitting it" into any particular scale.
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That's exactly right, Stratrat. When there is no apparent key center, like SLTS, therefore no obvious scale, then the chord tone approach is about the only way to come up with any melody that works, and it needs to be twisted into place.
My guess is that the writer(s) of that tune would have come up with the chords first. If you look at it, it's a I to a IV, then another I to IV a minor third up. So it's two chords, key change, two chords, back to the first key. Then the other section is pretty much the first key's I chord minorized ...
Analyzing it using the usual references of keys and related chords is a bit like trying to analyze a Picasso painting using the usual references of perspective and shading. Pointless.