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Live Stream: Thursday, February 12th at 6:00pm ET (check your local time zone)
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Hi guys! We are back with Live Lesson EP087! This month’s topic is: How to Change the Key of a Song
In this session, Matt will teach you how to transpose songs using the circle of fifths, a powerful tool for understanding key relationships.
This month’s topic should stir up some great questions! So please post all you have below and I hope you join us for the live stream. 🙂
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Really looking forward to this one, should be super interesting and full of new learnings!! 🙂
When I think about changing the key of a song, I always think of how to do it on piano, still, because in my opinion it’s so much clearer and simpler to visualize that process on piano, seeing how different key signatures are “parallel” – such as major and minor scales. For me, it’s a very visual thing that way. Even while playing ukulele, I still visualize how the scales look on piano. I hope you magically know what I mean by that, Matt, as you always seem to do! 😂
So, if you play a chord that starts on the “C” note of the C major scale, that is the same thing as playing a chord on the “F” note of the F Major scale. Those are the “1’s” of each of those scales. An “F” note is also the “4” of a C Major scale.
Does that make any sense? So sorry. This is always how I’ve thought about changing keys on instruments. 😂
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