Voice Lessons 101 - Find your Key (Matt McCoy)

This lesson talks about Raising and Lowering the Key of a song in order to make it match the key you are most comfortable singing in. Many beginners (myself included) will hear a song on the radio and see the chords and start playing. Immediately they will find they cannot sing with the chords so they think they cannot play that song. This is not the case. You can simply use the methods I teach in this video to put the song in the key you want.

Obviously another way of changing the key of a song on the guitar is by using the capo. This method will allow you to play the same chords over and over while changing the key just be moving the capo to different frets along the neck of the guitar.

Both methods are great for practice! Don't forget, Minor's and Flat's work the same way! an Em, would become and Fm, a Am would become a Bm and so forth.

Have a great day guys and God bless!
Matt

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[mixxndj]

Thanks homey! God Bless!

[acousticselection]

@mixxndj glad i could help!

[TheCocotwist]

thx this is great help:)

[acousticselection]

@TheCocotwist Thank you! Glad I could help!

[BuBluetane]

Seriously I've been looking all over for this one. :D

Thanks Matt and be blessed.

[acousticselection]

@BuBluetane glad i could help! Good luck

[folkpunk123]

That's not always true. If you're in E and you're playing E A B, since there's only a half step between E and F you wouldn't be able to raise the A to a B, it would have to go to a Bb. It would be the same type of thing going from like B to C. But, besides that, that would be a really easy way to change keys. Also, there are 12 major chords, not seven. Other than that it was a really good video.

[acousticselection]

@MsAwesomeness360 Have you watched my video called "how to sing and play at the same time?" that should help you out hopefully

[mrcriollitas]

This was very helpful

thanks for sharing

[JESUS1andONLYWAY]

Can you do a video, on just how to play the song "Sanctuary". This helped, I'd never think it was that easy, but what about the speacial cords like minors, and all?

[manchesunt]

So what if the chord is say a F# would you move it to a G#