Best key for "after you've gone"

Charles Meadows

It looks like Stochelo does it in C on the Rosenberg academy, Tcha plays in in Eb in DC music school. There's fabulous version by Adrian for Caravan guitars (the Park Montmartre demo) in F.

Any consensus on perhaps the one most likely to occur in jams?

wim

For sure the key most likely is G

anthon_74

To be clear, I believe Stochelo plays it in G, not in C. It starts with a C chord, but is actually in the key of G. Stuart, Wim, do you agree ?

Anthony

anthon_74

for the record, I prefer it in G, and have only Jammed with it in G.

Charles Meadows

Your're right - it's G. Sorry.

Jim Kaznosky

If you can play it in G, you can play it in F. Tcha's chords from DC Music are well worth learning.

dennis

if i'm not mistaken, django did a session in Rome that was in the key of C (starting on F)...

Tcha does it in Bb so that it fits his vocal range

Russell Letson

The key the vocalist calls. (Ducks behind sofa and crawls out of room.)

Jon

All the above. I like where the melody falls on the guitar in D. Usually at gigs and jams I'm at it'll be G, or sometimes Eb. It's a good one to work on transposing though, as it's pretty straight ahead with a few little twists for your brain to get around.

Jazzaferri

Bb. Lays out nicely on sax and has a nice bluesy sound in that one, F is second fave.

G is standard.

bbwood_98

I play it mostly in C (starts on F). . . as that's the key Eve sings it in. I like the idea of a most likely key, rather then a best key. . .