Live Class 8-23-18 | Writing Your Own Chord Charts (Ear Training Pt 4)

For this live class, I dissected a particular song, and figured out the chords for it. You may want to try and figure out the chords for this song on your own before you watch me do it, that way you can check your results with mine during the class.

Here is the song I dissected during this class

The first step is figuring out which key the song is in. It can only be 1 of 12 possible keys (A, A#, B, C, C#, D, D#, E, F, F#, G, or G#)

To do this, try and match the first note you here of the song, with a note on your guitar. Rewind and replay over and over again until you can match it. Once you discover the key of the song, then you can transpose it into a more comfortable chord family if necessary, using the transposing cheat sheet and a capo. And then listen to the rest of the song and try and decipher the remaining chords from your 7 options of the scale. (Refer back to Part 3 of the ear training series).