Re: Educate Me - What Key is This?

js wrote:
Whoops, just spotted an error.

The chords in the "D" section are NOT diatonic to A - with the Em, they're
diatonic to D.

However, it still feels like a change of CHORD, not a change of key, with
that other stuff being an imitation of the first part. It's similar to a
blues progression in that way.

Hmmm, I haven't bothered to decipher the Jim's tab (use Nashville Numbers fer chrissake Jim!) or to learn the tune but it's fairly well entrenched in my subconscious and I hear it in my minds eye as a distinct key change.
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