 Hi guys. This is Jason here from Nathaniel School of Music and in today's lesson, let's learn how to transpose pretty much anything from one key to the other key. So, what's going to happen is we take a scale, maybe you could take a major scale which hopefully you all know. The major scale has 7 notes, right? 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and then what you're going to do is you're going to write down maybe a scale you already know. So, if you perhaps know the C major scale, you could write down the C major scale, all the natural notes, right? C, C, D, E, F, G, A, B and that's pretty much it. If you want, you could add the high C, okay? Let's start off with everyone's favorite. Twinkle, twinkle. I'm just going to take the first two lines of the melody. So, that'll be 1, 1, 5, 5, 6, 6. Actually, what I'm going to do is I'm going to write it down on C. We'll build it together so you can find it as follows. C, C, G, G, A, A, G, F, F, E, E, D, D, C, right? It's quite easy to play on C major as you're observing, right? C, C, G, G, A, A, G, F, F, E, E, D, okay? So, let's just write down that information, maybe the first two lines if possible. So, that's C, C, G, G, A, A, G, then the G goes on a little longer, F, F, E, E, D, D, C and then the C goes a little longer and then of course the song continues. Now, what you could do is you could write this melody down in a general form or in a generic form. So, that would be as follows. C is the one of C major scale, right? So, that's going to be one, one, then you have your G. G is the fifth note from the C major scale. So, one, one, five, five, that's C, C, G, G, then you go to 6 which is the A or A which is the sixth. So, you go A, A, G, then you end on 5, then you go F, F which is the 4, double 4, E, E, double 3, D, D, double 2, C, right? If you are an Indian musician, you may want to prefer maybe the Indian Swaras. For example, Sa, Sa, Pa, Pa, Dha, Dha, Pa, Ma, Ma, G, G, Re, Re, Sa. In the western system, you have something called a Soul Fedge where you have Dore Mi Fa, Sola T. So, that will be the intervals and the Indian Swaras are pretty much like the Indian way of writing down the Soul Fedge. So, Sa will be Doh and so on and so forth, right? So, that will be Sa, Sa, Pa, Pa, Dha, Dha, Pa, Ma, Ma, G, G, Re, Re, Sa or with actual notes, C, C, G, G, A, A, G, F, F, E, E, D, D, C. Pardon my poor fingering as I am juggling this nice apple pencil here. Anyway, so you have the melody, twinkle, twinkle little star which you used to play on C major scale or probably would feel very confident enough to play it on C major scale. Now, we are trying to move it to other keys. So, let us assume that you got this down. C, C, maybe you could play the root in your bass. C, G, G, F, F, E, harmonize it a bit if you can. Okay? So, I pretty much played everything on the key of C major and if you are a beginner on the keyboard, what you are going to end up wanting to do is perhaps play the tune with your right hand and maybe figure out some basic accompaniment in your left hand. And I would advise you to check out the description. We will attach you a nice video where I cover a lot of left hand accompaniment patterns for various songs, especially, you know, these nursery rhymes and very popular music. Okay? So, you could do something like basically a nice accompaniment in the left hand. And let us now focus on transposition. So, now you've got past everyone's favorite scale C major with everyone's favorite song, Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star. Now, what we want to do to grow as a piano player or as a musician in general, you would need to now transpose it to another key. So, for today's lesson, I'm going to take up maybe one sharp scale and one flat scale. So, let's look at a three sharp scale. So, a three sharp scale is nothing but A major. The key signature is A major. So, good practice would be to write down the A major scale. Always good when you're transposing, right? Write down everything, write down all the possible information. And once you write it down, you could attach the numbers along with it. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. If you like the Indian Swaraj, you could always write sa-re-ga-ma-pa-dha and finally ni. Okay? So, now we know the format. We know the formula for Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star, which is one, one, five, five, six, six, five. So, what you could do very easily is you could write down the notes starting with A, which is the root or the sa-a-a, which is one, one, right? E-e, which is five, five, F sharp, F sharp, which is six, six, five, long five. So, let's play line one now. A-a-e-e, F sharp, F sharp, E. Line one again. A-a-e-e, F sharp, F sharp, E-d-d. Okay, let's move on to line two. So, your D will be 4-4, C sharp would be 3-3, then you do B-B, which is your two, and then you end with A, and then I'd advise you to follow forward and complete the rest of the melody. So, let's see how this sounds on the key of A. I'm just supporting it with an A here or a fifth A-e. Don't worry too much about fingers if you're a beginner, just look at getting the thing well. And your ear will obviously tell you that, hey, this sounds pretty much like Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star, which I just played on C major, right? So, when you're remembering the A major scale, it's also advisable to remember it in a way what I call as the piano worm, okay? So, that's basically the scale linearly from left to right, and you write it down with white note and black note alignment. So, that's A, B, C sharp, D, E, F sharp, G sharp, A, the final A, right? So, you may want to write down the piano worms as well for each of the scales you're about to work on or transpose. So, that's A, B, C sharp, D, E, F sharp, G sharp, and A, right? So, I've done Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star on A major. I guess that works out, right? So, now let's also prove to ourselves that, yeah, I've got this under the belt. Let's do this on one more scale. Let's take a flat scale. So, I'm going to take E flat major scale. A scale some of you may not be that familiar with, but it's just a major scale like any other. It follows the same formula, which is two steps, two steps, one step, two, two, two, one. So, it's just starting with E flat, which is here, right? Very nice scale, very good on the fingers. So, if you want to play the melody on E flat, it's the same deal, right? 1, 1, 5, 5, 6, 6, 5. The melody remains the same, but I need to present it on this new key, E flat major, which I guess I'm playing now because my singer sounds very good on this scale or maybe I'm playing with a horn player who likes the flat scales, which is generally the case, okay? So, perhaps a good option would be to write down E flat major as always. Remember your three flats and the octave, right? I'd advise you all to also watch my Circle of Fifths for Scales video. Again, the link is in the description. Head over there. If you have a problem with remembering scales, that video will help you greatly. So, please watch that video as well and try to finish it till the end. It's a rather long one. So, watch it, okay? So, again, let's superimpose the numbers. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and of course the high one and then the swaras, if you're interested. So, and then E flat, which is the high Sa. Okay, that's E flat major. Before writing down twinkle or the melody you're going to play, it may help to write down your worm, the piano worm as I'm calling it, right? As you'll observe, it's sort of very easy to remember, right? It's like you have two boats, boat one and then following boat two. So, you could remember it with these shapes. It's a nice way to get by the scale. So, now if you have to play twinkle, twinkle, I guess you guys are already champions at this job already, right? So, you go E flat, which is 1, E flat, then it's a one again, B flat, B flat, which is 5, 5, C, C, which is 6, B flat and you hold that, E flat, E flat again, G, G again, F, F again, E flat. Right? So, we've now played twinkle, twinkle on the key of E flat. So, you go in a simpler way, right? You'll also start getting to know these other keys a bit better. Maybe you're playing piano on C major, which sort of feels like you're always in a very comfort zone, like your own home neighborhood area, right? So, as you drift, as you find the anomalies of all the other keys with the white and black notes coming together, it will also, in a way, inspire you a lot in moving forward as a composer. So, for instance, if you play on E flat major, it feels very different, right? So, that would help you make a variety of music, which perhaps you do not make on C major. So, in the long run, scales and different key signatures on an instrument like the piano, where every scale is radically different, inspires you to compose music quite well. It's sort of like the same sport played in different playgrounds or in different surfaces, like if you have a game of tennis, played on clay versus grass. You know who's the champion on both, right? Clay and grass. Or if you take cricket, it spins in India while it swings in England and so on and so forth. You'll really benefit from knowing the scales. You'll be a lot more versatile as a musician. You'll also be good in the studio. You'll also be good as a producer and stuff. And you can work with a lot of singers. The whole idea about transposition in my book is to make singers in your band very happy. And yeah, it will also really help with being inspired to create your own music. And the greatest way to improve your chops on the piano is to take a lick or a phrase or a melody or a riff or a chord progression, whatever you may and play it on different melodies, sorry, on different scales. So do try that out. So in this lesson, what we've basically done is we've taken a scale C major. We've played a popular melody twinkle twinkle little star on C major, which I guess you all kind of know. And then after which we moved it around. We moved it to a major scale, which is three sharps. Okay, try to remember it that way. And we moved it also to an E flat major scale, which is three flats. So the melody sounds the same, but the the growth for us is to be able to play on all these different keys. So if you like that video, do give us a thumbs up, do support us by subscribing to our channel. And more importantly, we release a lot of videos. So please turn on that bell icon for all the notifications or hit the bell doesn't make a noise, I think, but still hit the bell. Okay, so this was about transposing. We will try and do something more regarding the same field of transposing in another video. But till then stay tuned and also watch the other videos in the description if you'd like. Cheers.