How To Find The KEY Of Any Song

[@MusicTheoryForGuitar]

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[@sarahrosen9272]

Of course we'd love the lesson on how to find the key by ear. Did you think we wouldn't ask? And for what it's worth, I love your lessons and your presentation. No gimmicks. No wandering. A short lecture that's straight to the point that teaches me something I can use right now. Well done.

[@cavaturnagesh]

quarter note rest, a good observation.

[@martinrhodes1619]

Yes please - how to find the key by ear!

[@zygmuntziembinski3011]

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[@null3963]

Yes please

[@Mars33233]

Please do 0:)

[@gabejimenez319]

YES I agree!

[@Citizen_J]

Yes, please do a video on identifying by ear!

[@joelcalzado9785]

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[@aylbdrmadison1051]

I completely agree completely.

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[@rahulrmdeka6446]

Please please please do a video on how to find the key by ear. And also how to identify the key in which a vocalist is singing in a live situation..

[@Dan-um5dm]

...especially when the vocalist is in a different key ;)

[@_LoneWoulfe]

Hell yeah we'd love to see a lesson on finding the key of any song by ear

[@leegosling]

Yes please, Your Pentatonic Majesty. I humbly beseech the occult knowledge of how to find the Key by aural divination.

[@riverdelavidawilliams9624]

Please do the video on how to find a song’s key by ear. I’ve been trying to figure it out for a long time myself and would really benefit from your explanation

[@LostMountainRestoration]

Yes please. By the way, your channel is incredible. Keep it up!!!!

[@dhaneshs131]

Very useful...Thanks Tommaso.. I vote for a video on how to find Key using ears

[@KaydenKircher]

How about some basic ear training in general? Your videos are incredibly helpful!

[@_k12ist]

Finding the key with ears (better without the help of instruments) is great thing to learn. Thanks

[@lovetheworld55351]

This channel is a blessing

[@MichaelWilson-ri9pn]

This is exactly what I've been looking for. Love love your channel and I wish I had this when I started playing. Lucky people these days

[@NamelessMan666]

Oh hell yes! I definitely want the one done by ear. Your videos are so awesome!

[@pswi5735]

Please do the video about finding a key of a song by ear. Always a pleasure watching your vids! keep it up!

[@geeemoney1669]

Yes please do a video about finding the key of a song by ear!!

[@OmarGabra]

Thanks for your time

[@ardiancereyes]

wrote a song in - IV - iii - ii - I. realized it because of the end chord of the song. thanks to your video.

[@slimkt]

Ooh, heck yeah, I want a video on figuring out key by ear!

[@Nicky-T]

Very thorough explanation. Hopefully this will inspire some people who haven't learned their key signatures yet to get going. Love to hear you explain how to actually "cop" a chord progression.

[@Crowsinger]

Absolutely do the one by ear!

[@flynnisles395]

Yes please do a by ear video

[@RoofElmao]

Definitely find the key by ear video we need.

[@Redheadedlady55]

~Plz keep helping us to understand guitar & music that I love very much....thank you.

[@canha1984]

Please do a video on how to figure out the key by ear, please!

[@jaymic1]

This helped me to understand a little more, Tomas. I like the speaking style that you have.

[@deliusmyth5063]

I just sing the end of "My Way" along with the song. The word "way" gives me the tonic.

[@sciexp]

Thanks for sharing this study. Very systematic. It's kind of common sense, but exposing it directly is quite good. Mil gracias. Grazie mille.

[@colemanflentge6366]

I would love a video on finding the key of a song by ear!

[@qaximi]

Hi Tomas, you are doing an excellent job and providing very good services to new guitarists community, In real life situations you want to find the key by Ear, so Please make a video about that topic, it will be very much appreciated.

[@eldjennemo2122]

Excellent video ! Thanks you for these three well illustrated steps. I am looking forward to applying them to some of my favorite songs ! Merci beaucoup 😉

[@brunnoteixeira9400]

Dude, you're a new legend for me!

[@matthias18gr]

We'd love the "by ear" lesson!

[@remco2777]

I got excited clicking into this video expecting that this would be about finding a key by ear. If you already have the chords, then in most cases determining the key is not difficult as you will also have a melody line to go by. So yes: please do a video on finding the key by ear!

[@JoelMogera]

Absolutely mindblowing

[@krisvasilev6209]

Yes, finding a key by ear would be highly appreciated.

[@damiendelattre4366]

Please make a video on finding the key by ear

[@EDGARDOUX1701]

Please do a video on by ear!!

[@alexbecker4149]

*Major key alert! 🔑🙏*

[@MrRed-bk9xn]

Please if you have not already make a video on finding the key of a song by ear. Thanks for this video and all videos to come.

[@charlieseehorn9451]

Please make the video about finding the key by ear

[@FisVii77]

Like to see a progression by ear video. Great vids and content keep em up.

[@DanielSamulewiczXXI]

Off course we need your video tut on how to find song 🔑 without googling the chords to play along with some piece running on Spotify. And also we need this to start improvise while looking for ideas with the band. Not asking every minute: “Sorry, what progression you just played?”

[@seaweedbrain2]

Please do the video on finding the key by ear

[@cavaturnagesh]

please do the by ear determining key video

[@JakeSpeed1000]

Please do the video on how to find a song’s key by ear

[@syd502]

Yes please do a video on how to find a key of a song by ear.

[@ThePeaceableKingdom]

Thank you. I've always had questions about this when it comes to writing a score for a song I can play - What Key is it in? This is very simple and understandable. Thanks

[@theredshirts7245]

I had a (non-foolproof) way to find the key “by ear” when I was a beginner...it does have some flaws. I would play through the order of sharps and whichever one sounded “wrong” I would then have a starting point to check which major scale I could play on the song. A the time I had been lucky enough to not find a song with flats- but the same trick would have worked. Also I wasn’t listening to a lot of music that used other types of scales. If the song changes key you would have to repeat the steps again to see which key it changed to.

[@Gogogamer123]

Yeahh Do it also complete by ear please

[@winduslel2040]

Em C G D can be either G major or E minor as I believe practically

[@Pbnj1379]

Yes, please do the “key by ear” video!!

[@baschdiro8565]

Thanks for sharing your knowledge. I would also like to know how to find the key of a song by ear. Good thing you have included Sweet Home Alabama, as I was about to ask about Sweet Child o' Mine, which seems to be in Db Mixolydian.

[@Vampepper7529]

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[@RichGrimshaw]

Just found your channel. I'm fascinated by music theory, and I *love* your presentation. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and skills. Looking forward to many more lesons.

[@bobcuyt4675]

Sidenote: another potentially complicating matter (besides modes) is when the song changes key half way through, like in the chorus. For ex., look at the song "Don't speak" from the band No Doubt.The song is in Eb, but the chorus is in Ab.

[@MusicTheoryForGuitar]

Close. The verse is in Cm, the chorus in Fm.

[@bobcuyt4675]

@@MusicTheoryForGuitar Fascinating. Just when I thought I understood something in the past (saw some flats in the key, assumed the flat key with corresponding chords). Same chords of course, but indeed, applying your very simple rule "first chord?", I now know better. Thanks for teaching us!!

[@LorenzoBattistelli23]

please, i want to know how to find the chords of a song by ear! I NEED THIIIIISS!!!

[@vishyoutubevideos]

Thanks. Great video!

[@FoodNerds]

Yes, please do a video on finding the key of a song by ear.

[@michaelpanganiban76]

Thank you sir. Can you please do finding the key thru ear?

[@elijaho]

I'd love if you did that key-by-ear video

[@valeriekuhn3746]

I love your whiteboard teaching. Is the theory you are teaching good for piano too? I love theory, which makes me weird, I guess, but it is fascinating how this all comes together. Your chromatic inversion lesson with the Rach 18th variation blew me away. LOVED it.

[@MusicTheoryForGuitar]

Sure, the theory I teach works for piano too :)

[@ytusersumone]

Please do a video on finding the key of a song by ear, if you will, please sir. 👂🎵🎶🙏⚘

[@sevinjhasanova7649]

Yes,please, make a video about finding the key by ear🙏🙏🙏

[@WizardOfArc]

I would love to learn about finding the key by ear

[@Dan-um5dm]

Yes, by ear... please! :)

[@hlrossato]

Please make a video on how to find a key by ear

[@Gregorovitch144]

Sweet Home Alabama is D myxi? OK. There is a lot of debate about this. On the surface it starts on D and has a Cmaj so that would be the obvious conclusion but: 1. The into goes D-C-G-mysterious fill that is not really a G or D arpeggio (and I believe has a C# in it) 2. The verse goes D-C-G-mysterious fill that is basically a G arpeggio 2. The chorus goes D-C-G-mysterious fill that is sort of a G arpeggio leading to a emphasized C but only on the 4-and. 3. The guy that wrote the song and played the main solos played them centered on G I believe. Which taken together makes is somewhat ambiguous it might be argued. Secondly, I would be very interested in your opinion of Hack Music Theory's rules of thumb for identifying key/mode/tonal center: 1. The key/tonal center will usually be the chord the song starts with unless...... 2. .....another chord is played for a longer period on time in the progression, or....... 3. .....another chord is repeated more times than any other chord in the progression

[@joannerideout9917]

Yes, chords by ear, please!

[@rafagxjunglezz]

We want the video! :3

[@binface9]

Great video. I'm curious to the description of Sweet Home Alabama being in D Mixolydian. This would mean the progression is I VII V I rather than it being a V IV I V in G major. It would be very interested in an explanation. Is it the key to this more in the chord progression of the verse (which I cannot recall off the top of my head)?

[@charltonrowe4161]

binface9 It’s really V IV I I D C G G

[@downhill240]

Always interesting here!

[@Davemester]

Hi. Can I ask how many lessons do you have in the chord mastery course, alltogether? Thank you!

[@aylbdrmadison1051]

Ears are in fact a musicians most important tool. So any ear training whatsoever is welcome. Perhaps it's just a British and American thing, but we use a capital "M" for Major chords and a lower case "m" for minor chords (CM = C Major, and Cm = C minor). I only mention it because it could cause some confusion. Regardless thanks again for the excellent lesson. ^-^

[@sadlymusic]

I want mean too that the academic theory is secondary... Certainly it help a author in some difficult musical controversial meaning... In some way is a original author able to create theory.. To study theory is mainly fundamental for a musicist, not for an author. I'm a typical example... as author i think to be between the best in creations, and i ever got none lesson of theory, with nobody had never to teach me, even i read none musical book (i had education as technic). All my compositions born by my musical emotivate transcended sensibility, and then trascripted by mine own ears (i even might have suggestion by my dreams, and dreams don't follow suggestion by any theorie). Another example is that this teacher (he is a italian.. as me also... i praise his knowing), in a some other preceding video he treated theory on sequence chords : C - Am - Am7 - G ... (score: A,B,C,D,E G,A,G)... well.. he treated just harmony for use in one of my awesome composition ("Concerto for Guitar", in a progressive-rock/pop-in-classical-symphony) that i had to write even 30ys long time ago. However i want say that an author ought not to have in very primary consideration the musical theory, but at first that his own natural felt emotive inspiration ! After, we may left do to the theorical criticists those own comments and analysis by academics as professionists ! Theory is a "while'.. All born and finish by the "ear" (if he had to perform in theory, i had not to have written (whatever in full MIDI computerizing scores) my 400 melodies by "ear", that i consider those to be between best in harmonical music)! (motation X(M) or X(m) is coventional anywhere, but X(M) may be signed as X simple)

[@necudavamkazem]

Of course i want to know how to find the song key by ear!!!

[@midodon4294]

Hey could you look at the flutopedia website where they list a bunch unused scales and do a video on the scales that are not in use currently. There's also a website called ian ring . com where they have a part of the site called a study of scales. There are1490 scales that are possible (for what they define as a scale) and about 4096 scales (some that are not defined as a scale) that are possinble in 12 tone equal temperment. Thank you

[@gemaf]

Maestro please do video on finding the key to a song by ear Grazie

[@rekhagusain9916]

Please make video on finding key by ears! Please 😇😇😇

[@null3963]

How to find the key by ear please!!

[@damien6685]

Yes please - by ear as well, if not more so When ever I get it right on a song on the radio, I get seriously chuffed with myself, but I don't get it right nearly as much as I would like

[@charltonrowe4161]

Since I don’t see anyone commenting on this I want to point out that Sweet Home Alabama is D C G G not D C G D. That is the chord progression for Can’t You See by The Marshall Tucker Band. SWA is in G and C’tYS is in D Mixolydian.

[@thomasogle7079]

I agree.

[@allenalsop6032]

Finding the key by ear would be a good video.

[@brettmarlar4154]

What about songs like, "O Ye Como Va" -Tito Puente/Santana, "Use Me"- Bill Withers, and "Chameleon"- Herbie Hancock? Are they ii V in a major key? Or are they i IV Dorian? I know this may sound pedantic, as both scales are the same only beginning on different degrees. So many people get confused as to what key they're in. If you look at the first chord played ad the i, it would imply Dorian. But there are so many people (largely people who play harmonica) that can't play on those as they can't find the right key. I know this is a guitar-centric channel, but as a guitarist, how do I get them to play on the right key?

[@FLIPPITYFLOOP]

Also isn't the 2nd chord of Sweet Home Alabama Cadd9? Unless my memory's tricking me. If it is, then that makes the D mixolydian even more apparent, since you have that direct clash between the C and D notes in the same chord.

[@dingleberrypie6612]

I would like a video explaining by ear.

[@sebamorales8583]

How to find the ear of a key by song please

[@sylvesterwarbringer8397]

Can you make how to find the key and which key it transposed? Something like Stevie Wonder songs.. not something like 2 5 1 or 1 5 4 2 prog

[@jimtheoguitarist]

i want to know how to find the chords of a song by ear!

[@EdificeofEchoes]

Yes, please show us to find the key by ear

[@armandosaldanamora9821]

Do it! (finding a key by ear)

[@s.vidhyardhsingh3881]

Yeah, please make a video on finding the key by ear. 😄 But does it have to do anything with perfect pitch?😜

[@Aasutoshadhikarip]

havent you made video on how to find chords by ears yet?

[@iceman_3825]

If you can breakdown hey Joe jimi Hendrix. It confuses me in its key

[@s.vidhyardhsingh3881]

6:12 the D major chord followed by C major feels like a 5M, 4M....... so obviously it feels good with that 1major (G major ) chord

[@irvincortes9808]

Yes by ear please!!!

[@u-isabeats3346]

plays piano and guitar the same chords and scale?

[@johndemola1608]

If you don't have an out of key chord in the song, then there is an even easier way to find the key. If you have 2 major chords that are only 1 step apart as in the C and D in this video, then you're key will be 2 and a half steps higher than the higher of the two major chords. In this case, 2 1/2 steps above the D. 5 frets on a guitar or 5 keys(white or black)on a piano.

[@alexbecker4149]

*How to find the key of any song that you don't have the chords for, and no instrument to play notes on and no synth app on your phone?*

[@sarahrosen9272]

Learn to sing. The ear training required will get you there.

[@alexbecker4149]

@@sarahrosen9272 *I can sing perfectly in tune by ear but I can't name the pitches..*

[@sarahrosen9272]

It's too late for *absolute* perfect pitch, but if you can recognize just one or two notes you can "do the math" of transposing. The point is that You can hear what chords are playing and relate them to an instrument: your voice. It's all about ear training. Can you hear what a major chord sounds like? A minor chord? A diminished chord? Great! Now you know your diatonic harmony for a major key, (Major, minor, minor, major, major, minor, diminished). If you hear two major chords with the root a whole step apart, there's a really good chance you've found the subdominant (IV) and dominant (V) and your good music sense will resolve that right back to your root (I). If that root isn't working, you might be in a mode. Remember that Aolean mode is the relative minor of Ionian mode, making that minor (vi) the minor (i) and that diminished chord its no longer the (vii°), its the (ii°) If this is new to you, watch the older videos on this channel. They're awesome. Trust your ear. You'll get it.