![]() This one is pretty self-explanatory, but the implementation can be a bit weird if you aren’t quite sure of the chords within the key. So employing the below methods will help you out in this regard. It’s a different story if you’re playing lead or picking, but for strumming, it’s just not my thing. But I personally don’t enjoy extremely high-pitched chords for strumming. It will also be very high-pitched at this point.ĭon’t get me wrong, higher voicings of chords, especially if someone else is playing the lower voicings, sounds nice in some genres. If you have a cutaway guitar, that might not be as much of a big deal.īut a guitar that isn’t a cutaway shape makes it difficult to play things above the 12th fret. You can see for example that if you’re in C, but you want to play in B, you’re going to have to place it in the 11th fret. Sometimes though, using a capo isn’t going to work. ![]() If you need to get a guitar capo, have a look at these suggestions. Here’s a chord chart to quickly see where you need to place your capo: If you want to play in A for example, but you only have the chords in G, you just put the capo in the second fret and play the chords for G as per usual beneath the capo. Depending on the type you have, you just clamp it around the neck of the guitar, with the straighter side across the strings. The capo acts as a new bridge, so you keep playing those same chords, but you’ve transposed the key up however many frets higher you’ve put your capo. This is one of the quickest and easiest ways to change the key. I’ve had to do this a few times, without a capo, and when my mind is sharp and fresh, or the pressure just forces laser focus and lightning quick thinking, it works out well enough.īut it’s for those times when you’ve been working or studying, have a lot on your mind, or didn’t get the best night’s sleep (hopefully because you had a lot of fun… I hear you if not), that you want to know the quick and easy tips too. Even if you’re working off memory instead of having the music in front of you. Once you get the hang of it and can use easy methods of changing the key or just work it out quickly in your head, you’re set up for doing it on the fly as needed. So while it’s all good to use the transpose buttons on Ultimate Guitar or one of the other tab websites, it’s not always practical. We can’t always get the music printed in a different key and it’s not always appropriate to use your phone, tablet, or laptop. Transposing chords is a necessary skill to accommodate a singer’s vocal range.
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