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Message: <blockquote data-quote="nigeld" data-source="post: 387110" data-attributes="member: 4650">I found the key and the chords very confusing when I was making the backing track.The first chord in the melody part of the backing track is tonic major, but with flat 7 and #9 - so it contains both major and minor thirds, but with the minor third notated as a sharp second, and with the solo playing a written minor third.  The chords in the next two bars are just plain strange, so I left them alone.But if one looks just at the melody notes, they seem to me to be fairly clearly in the minor key - all thirds are minor, and the only accidentals are a blue note - written as a flat V, and the subtonic in the 6th and 7th bars of the melody - written, rather confusingly, as a flat tonic rather than a sharp subtonic.</blockquote>