While I was able to play songs on the organ and accompany myself singing on the piano, there were still limitations to what I was able to play. My dirty secret was that I only knew how to play songs in the key of F. I think part of this was due to the way the pedals were on the organ. The organ had a limited range of pedals, usually an octave going from C to C. I would typically use an F-C bass line when playing an F chord and it just felt like the organ was made to play in this key. Of course, I was just playing what sounded and felt good. I had no idea what key I was playing in.
The exception to this rule was when I was playing a song in a minor chord. It felt most natural to play these songs in D minor.
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That seems to be really unusual because most people start off in C. I guess because we are taught the middle C first, and it has no flats or sharps.
That makes sense. I don’t know why I ended up in F.