How to Play in ANY Key
Summary
TLDRThe video explains how to visualize and play guitar in any key by outlining a pattern of notes across two strings. It starts with the key of G, showing the pattern of notes that comprises the G major scale. It then shows how to harmonize those notes into chords and demonstrates moving the same pattern to other keys like Bb and F. It explains how this helps diagnose and play in any key, emphasizing the importance of visualizing just 6 core notes in a key. It also shows how to use pentatonic scales and arpeggios over chord progressions, allowing you to start playing in any key.
Takeaways
- 😀 The trick to playing in any key is learning the notes in a pattern you can replicate (root, whole step, whole step, down a string, repeat)
- 👍 Use two adjacent strings and memorize the interval pattern (3-5-7) to visualize notes in a key
- 🎸 Add 3rds to root notes to outline major and minor chords in a key signature
- 🎛️ Use power chords on root notes to establish chord qualities
- 🎼 Construct arpeggios on chord tones to target chord changes
- 🔈 The minor pentatonic works over major key chords, especially 1-4-5 progressions
- 💡 Start simple with 6 essential scale tones then add extensions like 3rds, 5ths and arpeggios
- 🎸 The Super Pro Delta King amp has great tone for practice and home use
- 👂 This week's listening homework is checking out music by The Smile (Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood's band)
- 😊 The teacher is happy to answer any questions in the comments
Q & A
What is the main purpose of this video?
-To teach how to play and visualize music in any key on the guitar by learning a common pattern that can be moved to different root notes.
What is the basic pattern for finding notes in a key?
-A root note, then up a whole step, up a whole step again, down a string, then up a whole step and a half step. This gives you 6 of the 7 notes in a key.
How can you turn the scale degrees into chords?
-By adding either major or minor thirds onto the root notes. Major thirds for the I, IV and V chords. Minor thirds for the ii, iii, vi and vii chords.
What is an easy way to play in minor keys?
-Go to the relative minor pentatonic scale, which is usually 3 frets below the major key root.
What guitar amp is featured in the video?
-The Super Pro Delta King 10 amplifier, a Sweetwater exclusive.
What does the instructor recommend as a next step after learning the basics?
-Start incorporating arpeggios, the minor pentatonic scale, and exploring modal sounds like Mixolydian.
What radiohead side project does the instructor recommend listening to?
-The Smile, featuring Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood and other Radiohead members.
Does the instructor think he comes across as an insecure used car salesman?
-No, he questions why a commenter would say that and points out he is just playing guitar in the video.
What is the affiliate link for?
-Sweetwater - to help support the instructor if viewers purchase gear through that link.
What learning step does the instructor recommend after getting comfortable with the basics?
-Start adding additional notes, arpeggios and scales like Mixolydian to expand your knowledge and playing ability.
Outlines
😃 Introducing the notes in a guitar key and how to apply them to chords/scales
Discusses learning the notes in any guitar key using a pattern on two strings. Goes through how to harmonize the root notes into major and minor chords and apply this concept to different keys like Bb and C. Talks about adding 5ths to make power chords and using arpeggios. Mentions being able to diagnose and start playing in any key this way.
😊 Moving the key concept to Bb and F and talking about the minor pentatonic scale
Applies the two string root note concept to the keys of Bb and F. Discusses building chords, using power chords, arpeggios and pentatonic scales. Mentions that the first six notes are the most important to know. Talks through examples of using major chords, then minor pentatonic riffs within different sample keys.
😃 Using the key of C and G to demonstrate applying theory and progressions
Gives examples of playing in the key of C using mini chords, power chords and minor pentatonic. Mentions establishing chord progressions and adding arpeggios, scales and modal playing. Transitions to discussing the featured amp and its qualities and strengths for practice and performing.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Guitar keys
💡Intervals
💡Chord tones
💡Arpeggios
💡Pentatonics
💡Chord progressions
💡Scale degrees
💡Lead playing
💡Relative minor
💡Modal interchange
Highlights
Learn the notes in a key in a way that makes sense and can be replicated in any key
Visualize and move around the fretboard using a simple 3-5-7 shape on two strings
Harmonize the root notes with major and minor thirds to build mini chords
Apply the 3-5-7 shape to any key by finding the root note and using whole and half steps
Add power chords and arpeggios to flesh out the sounds and play more musically
The minor pentatonic scale is an easy way to solo and sound good over chords
Go between chords and pentatonic scales to make interesting progressions
The Super Pro Delta King amp has great tone and features for practice and home use
Sweetwater exclusive Super Pro Delta King amp sponsored the video
Affiliate link provided to support the channel when purchasing the amp
Listening homework this week is music by The Smile, with members of Radiohead
Criticism received about hand gestures and used car salesman impressions
Questions and comments can be directed to the website, Instagram or YouTube comments
Thanks expressed to Sweetwater and Supro for sponsoring the video
Invitation offered to ask any questions or leave comments
Transcripts
when I'm not drunk with power from
blocking a spam email and then reporting
is junk right after I like to answer
questions and comments that get on
YouTube so let's get to it if G is the
People's Key and C is perhaps the
teacher's key I still need your
perspective on the rest of the keys all
right super cool quick lesson about how
to play in absolutely any key all the
keys all right the trick is to learn the
notes in a key in a way that makes sense
that you can replicate over and over
through any key all right so I'll start
in the People's Key and the key G even
though we talk about it all the time and
then we're going to move it to
absolutely any key all right so I think
the best way to do this is do this
across two strings learn six notes G is
the third fret on the low E string okay
now you should probably know a little
bit about how to find the names of the
notes all right I'll run through it
super quick you can look this up
anywhere else but like here's the E open
E there's no e so e f f g g sharp starts
over again a a sharp b c c d d d Shar e
okay so we're going to assume that you
can find a root note on the low E string
that's the prerequisite for
understanding this but basically we've
just got
this these six notes okay one simple
shape 35 7 357 basically we have a root
note wherever we start we're just happen
to start it on a g to start with the
People's Key right here and then we go
two Frets higher and two Frets higher
you can do it in one hand shape like
this pointer finger ring finger pinky or
however you play a three notes per
string thing this isn't about playing
three notes per string this is about
visualizing and moving around and then
the same thing on the a string 3 5 7
okay so these are six of the seven notes
so you need an any key now the funny
thing is we could continue on and go
through all the rest of the notes in a
shape but I do think once you start
Crossing strings it's easy for our
brains to get super confused two strings
is a really really solid place to start
no matter what you're doing anybody can
handle two strings 357 357 and then as
long as we're here let's go another
whole step and another half step that
gives us the entire key okay now it
doesn't give us all the notes from
anywhere but we have a starting off
point for any single chord in this key
which we going to move around okay now
once you have this information there's a
million different there's an infinite
amount of things that you can do I spent
a lot of time on my videos just talking
about this but let's talk about what we
can do with these notes first thing
let's turn them all into representatives
of major and minor chords all right all
we have to do is add third onto that
what this is going to look like is now
going to become
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this okay so we're just adding another
note we're harmonizing the root note and
we're starting to get the vibe of a
chord okay there's only two ways to do
this a major third or a minor third a
root note and a major third
looks like this like the beginning of a
G major chord by the way have you
noticed how amazing the superpro amp
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amazing sound as you can tell here's a
root note and it's major third so any
major chord those are two notes you can
play all right so the major chords are
going to be found on the first fourth
and fifth degrees 1 2 3 4
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five right there so now we've got some
little mini chords that we can do the
other one is just using a minor third
which is just taking its major third and
flattening it going back a fret so for
the second and third notes here now we
have this 5 e and 3
a Okay so we've got major minor minor
major major minor okay so we're already
starting to kind of go through all of
this and have some very
interesting things that we can sound a
little more musical than just the simple
notes in a scale now the great thing
about the minor one is we can also use
that on that seventh degree to get us
back to one so now we're starting to
play What's called a chord scale
essentially just by going like this
major minor minor major major minor
minor and then start again g to g okay
so this is the first thing that you can
do to replicate this all over the place
let's take another key let's take the
key of B flat that happens to be the
sixth note now we just take that same
advice that same kind of trick we
used
and these are all the notes in that key
right that shape that root note whole
step whole step down a string repeat
whole step half step is going to give us
the the notes in whatever key we start
on and then now we can start applying
those thirds to all of the other notes
in this key okay now how does this help
you play around at any keys well first
of all we have starting points to
diagnose whatever it is we're doing so
if we're in that key of B flat we can do
that or we can maybe add something that
you probably already know the power
chord that goes with that chord too okay
I wanted to start with the thirds
because it's a little more musical
whereas the power chord is just here
right root note and it's fifth so just
like we can go 1 2 3 4 5 6 we can go 1 2
3 4 5
6 and then change it up all right the
only one one we can't use a power chord
on can't again just being you know
staying within a key is that seventh
note that has 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 that has a
flat five so right these are just little
things you can memorize but for the most
part it's just like all right we've got
our root notes we're adding our thirds
we're adding our fifths right so let's
play through the B flat chord scale with
the thirds major minor minor major major
minor minor home now let's play through
it with the fifth super easy doing it
this way
[Music]
okay so that's the next step all right
now we can do this in any key key of f
there's the
F those are all the notes those are all
the chords right you can do them again
as major or
minor and it's like all right it's
starting to flesh out it's starting to
get a little bit more intense all right
the next step would be taking a fuller
arpeggio from that the one that I really
like to do is let's do it on the B flat
like that any major chord you can do
this with whole step whole step down
which again that's really just giving us
the the first three notes of that scale
and then it's power
chord and then the
octave and then we just repeat that
around different things okay so now you
can apply that to any of the major
chords The Next Step would be playing
any of the minor chords All right so
we're going to do that for another key
and then we're going to jump jump back
to everybody's favorite cheat hack just
the minor pentatonic okay so let's pick
one more key let's do uh let's do the
key of FP right so we got there's the e
f FP here's this let's turn into power
chords remember this those first six
notes I think are the most important to
really ever know if you don't take
anything else from this video aside from
that this incredible Sweet Water
exclusive super Delta King amp is
amazing take these six notes off of any
beginning location because even just
staying in the lower register there's a
million things you can do with that all
right so we do that we can do the major
minor minor major major
minor and then just run through it that
way we could do that
arpegio okay real quick I'll just run
through major arpeggio FP full Step full
step fifth there's the octave F whole
step whole step fifth compos for the B
string F whole step step fifth that's so
much of the fretboard already that you
can easily move just from thinking about
adding a root note expanding off it from
either a third A fifth or an arpeggio of
such all right don't know if that
sentence actually made sense the way I
constructed it but here we are all right
now minor pentatonic is what we have to
talk about because it's so easy on a
guitar to rip through the minor
pentatonic because no matter where you
are you've probably already seen it a
lot and it sounds like this go back to B
flat let's go to the minor pentatonic if
V major key is three Frets back okay so
that would also be the 1 2 3 4 five six
degree I think it's always easier to
go three frats back in most cases so you
can kind of stay on the lower register
because there's cool stuff we could do
like this
G relative minor pentatonic looks like
that there's a million different things
you could do to play around in
this okay when you have two notes per
string then you can really fly through
them just as
hams pull
offs double
[Music]
STS anything you want to do so let's
take some chords from B flat let's just
take the 1 four and five let's make it
very major
[Music]
major we only know how to do that
because just a root note and then it's
major
third and then let's do something in
minor pen attack so now we're just
playing we're just playing in the cuy
we've got we've got a
[Music]
chord I'm just going from the
chords and then jumping into
anything minor
pentatonic
[Music]
cord and then it sounds you know sounds
like I'm playing in any key pick another
key let's go the the teacher key the key
is c
[Music]
c
and again I'm just going little mini
chord into it I could do power
chords
[Music]
ouru and then back into minor pentatonic
so now I'm just kind of playing in the
key I'm establishing some kind of chord
progression it can be loose it can be
whatever you want it to be you know how
to build it off of just those smaller
shapes and then you start incorpor ating
the arpeggios the minor pentatonic and
then you've got some cool guitar shapes
and then you can start adding a little
bit to it every time what do you mean by
adding to it is like let's stay and see
maybe I know that I want to do something
based more off of G chord than it's
modal it's like okay all that stuff I
spent on the times learning mixian I
could do that too c f
g then I'm in that shape that mixian
shape that so many
people kind of spend time doing and
that's when you start adding little
pieces and I think it makes sense so now
you can play in pretty much any key
right I thought the Delta King 10 was
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another video on this in a different
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Bas and travel it has built-in Reverb so
again this is a this light Reverb for me
how
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about again really cool with that uh you
know volume Master you can drive it also
has a boost and a drive switch so I can
just put the drive
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on and then I can use do that or I can
like do the the
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Boo and again it's not so loud that it's
going to like blow the doors down off of
anything so again thank you to suo and
Sweet Water for sending this over this
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helps me out I wish everything you were
saying wasn't meaningless to me that's a
pretty good everything I you know I wish
everything I was saying was also not
meaningless to myself you FL your hands
around like a used car salesman when you
talk makes you appear insecure and silly
do I flap my hands around when I talk I
feel like I have a guitar does this does
this count as flapping my hands around
strumming a
guitar an insecure and I I feel like
used car salesmen are don't they come
across as very confident insecure I I
don't know salty comment very very
interesting listenting homework this
week is going to be some stuff by the
smile if you guys don't know this this
is a radio head in my estimation it's
it's Tom York Johnny Greenwood Nigel
godbridge so most of radio head and
their kind of side project but it
definitely sounds like an awesome radio
head album so they released their second
album some really cool tracks on that
I'm going to link you one of those thank
you again to Sweetwater and suo for
sponsoring the video if you guys have
any questions or comments H me in the
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and I'll will talk to you all soon
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