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Originally Posted by David
Yeah, I don’t have any idea what key she’s actually playing on the album. But what everybody says here is logical — she can transpose (although not on an acoustic piano), she can practice the song in D flat, or the track can be sped up.
the only other thing I have to add is that it’s easy to play this I-IV-V song in D flat. Nothing very tricky is going on keyboard-wise. Also, you can see her playing it aboard her boat in the 1979 documentary. If you have that handy, can you tell? It’s really a simple keyboard thing (as are many of her tunes, even her best tunes). I was watching McCartney do a piano video the other day, and he shows how his best musical ideas just come out of very basic chords built on the white keys!
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Absolutely!
I'm writing something with chords C maj/A min/F maj/G maj and someone I know suggested changing to the relative minor, that way still keeping it all to the white keys, to change the song up a bit - a simple idea, like McCartney may even suggest (haven't seen the video). So we went A min/G maj/E min/D min, I think it was.
In the harmonic A minor scale there's a raised sixth, if I recall, which adds a black key. But NOT in the natural minor scale.
(Sorry if this is boring.)