Current student Sherry has a a great question:
“I very much enjoy reading other people’s comments and questions, along with your responses. My question today is actually several questions put together: When I look online for words and chords for a particular song, how do I know what key that song is in? I seem to remember in one of the lessons, you said that certain chords are generally played together in a song. Do I remember that correctly and, if so, are those specific chords determined by what key the song is being played in? I hope that question makes sense!
Thank you for your willingness to answer questions!- Sherry”
Ah…
…the mysterious question about how to know what key a song is in.
Sometimes is can be confusing.
Sometimes it’s obvious like for instance…
…if the only chords in the song are G, C, D.
Then it’s G.
But how do we know that?
Because chords are group in families.
I have know Idea really how this started or was figured out and it’s really not important to playing (the way we play)
And this family structure is called the “Circle of Fifths”
When you start to understand how the Circle of Fifths works then you can easily tell what key the song is in when you are looking at a chord chart.
We go into this in Module 5 of the Layer Method of Piano program.
And there is an awesome free tool online that I show you that makes it super simple.
Become a student and start learning the easy way to play here:
Here to Serve,
Tim (PianoFool)
