Re: Educate Me - What Key is This?

jeffb wrote:
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.

Why did this tab throw some people for a loop? I didn't write it out myself, I found it online. When I saw it it took me all of two seconds to understand it (of course, I had the song in my head). As you listen to the verse it's pretty obvious that the progression is three chords with each having three forms of the same chord. It repeats that with what sounds like a key change. That's what the tab showed.
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