How to learn how to transpose any song to any key on your guitar! The EASY way

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[@annikaedin620]

Wish I had seen this video long time ago. You made things really clear and understandable. Thank you

[@theresegrenier3896]

I have never heard it explained so well. Thank you for this, keep it up!!

[@Aryakhandelwal]

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[@ranieilao7405]

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[@kanikasharma4004]

thank you so much, you are a genius tbh. well explained. make some more videos please.

[@ritiksinghal2467]

Can you teach us how to take the mid chord rifs, like you did in the songs at 22:40

[@astewart9410]

I’ve been playing and learning for years and this is the clearest simplest explanation I’ve found yet. Great job! Thank you!

[@KimmenEdin]

glad it was helpful

[@thecoverstory1]

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[@maxwellmc9734]

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[@coltonflynn358]

A minor is the relative minor to C major. That means they both consist of the same notes in a scale. Every major key has a relative minor. Everyone look up a video on the circle of fifths and how it works. This video explains it well but the circle of fifths is a helpful and interesting tool that will help you understand a lot.

[@gaurimanlimbu3450]

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[@EdwardLaurenson]

You deserve 1000x more subscribers. This was so well explained and demonstrated! Thank you Kimmen!

[@KimmenEdin]

Thank you

[@mikaedin]

You are a genius Kimmen! How about vocal lessons for the next video? You are the best :)

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[@yogeshmaan8012]

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[@albertocastro9091]

Thank you for this. I’m trying to play accompaniment with a piano, she transposes most of her music by changing sharps to flats how can I do that. I’ve tried building a table as with sharps but come up needing double flats or I’m doing it wrong. Can you show me how ?

[@CHILLMIKEYY]

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[@christfollower8318]

I'm going to tell you in a very detailed simplified way

[@jolo2331]

can you explain how to transpose DOWN. I am struggling to transpose E. I have a song I love to play but its too high. I have managed to transpose all the chords down, except the E , Please can you help

[@ScarletteFiesci]

Hi Kimmen. Love your vlog and your way of teaching. The only thing I would say is A minor and C Major are relative keys. Parallel keys would be C major and C minor. So A minor is the relative minor of C major. Just how we refer to it in British English. So a minor relative key is a minor 3rd from the major diatonic note if you will. If using the circle of fifths, as you know, it will be 3/5's down from the tonic note. Have subscribed. Looking forward to the next vlog. Glad I found you. Excellent teaching method. Thank you so much. Fantastic pitch and tone. Your vocal range and tessiture is really formidable. You are the full package as we say here in the UK. A very talented musician and a really good voice. One question for you if you don't mind: Do you have any quick tips and or methods for transposing on the go for melodies. For piano if possible. I see musicians do this so quickly and easily. On the guitar there is the Kapo - sorry not sure about the spelling lol. The chords on a piano are one thing but with the melody line, do you just look for patterns as most melodies are scalar formed etc and use the Solfeggio system etc. I just need to practice on the hoof transposing I guess. Anyway as I mentioned, excellently professional teaching system, simplified learning method for dummies like me lol.

[@KimmenEdin]

Thanks for enlightening me with the right terms with relative and parallel keys, and thanks for your kind words. The word parallel chord I just made up in my head as a kid to make things easier for myself. As with most of my knowledge. I made up my own systems to think by because I didn't have any books to learn from and no internet or stuff like that. I just had my guitar and a lot of patience. About the transposing on the go for melodies on the piano, I guess the equivalent of the Capo for a piano would be to use the transposing function on electrical pianos. But then again you don't really learn how to play it in another key. So if you know how to play a melody in C, transposing it to D is all about counting two piano keys higher on the keyboard, and then the fingers have to learn the slightly different key-pattern, which is the hard part. Transposing a melody on the piano really isn't more complicated than transposing the chords, theoretically speaking. But it does take a little bit more practice to get the fingers to follow when it comes to transposing a melody since the keys on a piano are not symmetrically lined up. I guess I don't see any other way than to practice the melodies in all different keys. Over and over again. The hard part for me has always been perfecting the melodies and get them right every time, mainly because I don't practice enough. To figure out a melody is less complicated because most melodies are not that complicated and rarely deviates from the scales. It's mainly listen and trail and error, and you get better at it with time. Once you learned a song, transposing is all about counting. At least in the beginning. As you learn the scales and finger settings by heart it gets easier to transpose fast. I'm not sure I actually answered your question, but I hope you got something out of it. And just to let you know, I'm not a good piano player. Not at all. I can play a little just because I understand music fairly good. I never payed the hours needed to learn how to actually "play piano". But six months ago I bought a piano and now I'm really dedicated, and I play way more piano now than I play guitar. Good luck with everything.

[@ScarletteFiesci]

Hi Kimmen Thank you for your reply. I meant what I said. I am so glad that I found your channel just sorry that it took me all this time. If what you say about not practising enough is true, then it really hasn't affected your skill as far as I can see. I have just got a piano after not having one for 15 years and I am exactly the same. Totally dedicated and frankly I think I have learnt more than I did in 20 years classical training. As for your reply, I got a lot from it actually. You just confirmed the way I transpose and I do think you're right if you use the transpose key. I don't as I think this is a cop-out frankly. I think all musicians should be able to transpose. Just I tend to doubt my own abilities and being a classical pianist, you don't really get that much call to transpose unless taking theory exams lol. As you say most melodies really stick to the scales anyway. When telling you the correct terms we use in English I wasn't being patronising, I was trying to be helpful so please don't take offence. Apologies if it came across as such. Hopefully you'll have another video out soon. Really looking forward to it.

[@028shashinath7]

What if the key is in seminote. Like how can I change chords of a# key to that of f# key?

[@KimmenEdin]

Same principle. You can still use the transposing table. All the chords in the A#-key is one seminote higher than the A-key, all the chords in the F#-key is one seminote higher than in the F-key and so on. If you want an even more detailed transposing table you can always type in all the chords in the seminote-keys as well. it's an easy task since we already know the full notes. The second chord in the F-key is Gm. Transpose it to the F#-key which is one seminote higher, the Gm naturally becomes a G#m, and so on. It's really all about counting, and the only thing that confuses people is that the scales doesn't follow an even pattern, meaning: there's no seminotes in between B-C and between E-F. Everything is so much more easy displayed on a piano than on a guitar. There's 8 pianokeys between the A#-chord and the F#-chord. So if you want to transpose a full song from A# to F# all your chords in the song must be counted 8 pianokeys upwards on the keyboard. The same principle goes for the guitar, and as I mention in the video, if you were to play all chords as bar-chords on the guitar transposing would really all be about counting upwards and downwards on the neck of the guitar. Hope I didn't confuse you more.

[@ritiksinghal2467]

Bro when you strated singining i was like pls continue but you stopped.