Guitarists can also use a capo to transpose the music. However, for more complex music such as classical or fingerstyle pieces, the music may have to be completely rearranged. Occasionally you’ll have to move chords or lines over onto adjacent strings, but even this does not pose too much of a problem. It is often just a case of moving one’s hands up or down the fretboard, and playing the entire song in the new position. basic chords and melodies) on the guitar. It is usually very easy to transpose simple music (i.e. In classical music harmony, chords in minor keys can come from either the harmonic or melodic minor scales. However, I have also included the dominant 7th chords as these are probably used more than the minor chords based on the 5th degree of the scale. I feel that this is more relevant for rock/pop guitarists and songwriters. To learn more about diatonic chords, read this article: Diatonic Chords.įor major keys, I have extended the V chords to include the 7ths, making them dominant 7th chords.įor minor keys, I have used chords taken from the natural minor scale. Listed below are the chords diatonic to each of the main guitar keys. The main reason is simply that the chords in these keys are easy to play on guitar, usually because they include open strings.īear in mind that the above are just the keys that are most suited to the instrument: of course, the guitar can play music written in any key! There are a number of reasons that these keys are used in guitar music more than others. In the next section, we’ll look at the chords in each of these keys. The most commonly used keys in guitar music, in my experience, are shown below (in no particular order). Please bookmark or like this page, so that you can refer to it in the future. This is useful for composers and songwriters intending to write music for the guitar, whether or not they are guitarists themselves. In this lesson, I identify these keys, and also list the chords in each of these keys. This is due to the nature of the instrument and how it is tuned: some keys are just naturally more suited to the guitar. Guitar music is written in quite a narrow range of keys.
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