Songs I like in each key

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Songs I like in each key to help practice piano chords and scales during livestreams. Nota bene: Verify and transpose chords as needed. Use ears. Eventually write or print the score of each song, or at least note down the chord progressions.

Major Key Song
C Imagine (chords), Prelude Op. 11 No. 1, Sonata No.21 in C Major, “Waldstein”, Allegro in C major, K.5a, Don’t Look Back In Anger
C# Db I Just Called to Say I Love You, Sweet Child O’ Mine
D Planet Hunter, Carry On, Harvest Moon
D# Eb Pain (chords), Heathens, Superstition, Stay Faraway So Close (D for 🎸)
E My Favorite Things (chords) E Dorian & Ionian, One More Kiss, Dear, What About That Day
F Love, Try Not To Let Go (chords), Bird Hits Its Head Against The Wall
F# Gb Music is Mine, Undone - The Sweater Song, Girls Just Want To Have Fun
G All Blues, Pais e Filhos, Sittin’ On The Dock Of The Bay, Mississippi Goddam
G# Ab I Wanted To Leave, The Man Who Sold The World
A Three Little Birds, Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds, Over Everything (chords)
A# Bb Purple Rain, Chameleon (keys)
B The Boxer, Africa, Prelude Op. 28 No. 11 in B major
Minor Key Song
Cm All Along The Watchtower, Blues in C Minor
C#m Dbm Suspirium (chords), Echoes (chords), So Did We, 18 and Life
Dm Istanbul, Sultans of Swing, Toccata and Fugue in D minor BWV 565, Hear The Bells, Reindeer King, Like Exploding Stones, Killing In The Name
D#m Ebm Étude in D-sharp minor, Society is My Friend, Earthbound
Em Peace Trail, Come As You Are, In The Moment, Sara, Planet Caravan, Sin City
Fm Before (chords), Yes, It’s Me, The Goldfish!, In The End, Captain Kennedy
F#m Gbm Blade Runner Blues F#m7 & D (D6/9) F#m scale, Baltimore, Electrical Storm, Bang
Gm Shine On You Crazy Diamond, The Upper Peninsula, Überlin, G Song, Downbound Train, Pyramid
G#m Abm First Light (backing track), New Year’s Day (Am for 🎸)
Am Bagatelle No. 25 in A Minor (Für Elise), Carbon, Love Theme from Spartacus, Thirteen Days, Exodus, Cadillac Assembly Line
A#m Bbm 29 Years, Nocturne op. 9 no. 1 in B flat minor, Sonata No. 2 in B-Flat Minor, Op. 35 (Cho)
Bm Walking in the Air, Pass the Mic, Dreams, Counting Blue Cars


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