Beginner; This way isn't neccesarily the most practical, but it gets the job done. Let's first take something in C and transpose it to E. Our chord progression shall be thus: C F Am G. We know that E is exactly 2 whole steps higher than C. Using this knowledge, we just take every one of our chords up 2 whole steps. C turns into E. F turns into A. Am turns into C#m. G turns into B. Keeps all of the inversions such as; m7, 6add9, M, etc...., when you transpose. Advanced; This requires a bit more thinking, but eventually it can be used to actually transpose songs on the go, or while playing them. Let's first take something in C and transpose it to E. Our chord progression shall be thus: C F Am G. As I said before every key has 7 notes, and the Nashville Numbers System, every one of those notes is the root of a chord. Since there are 7 notes, everyone corresponds to a chord. 1 = Major 2 = Minor 3 = Minor 4 = Major 5 = Major 6 = Minor 7 = Diminished So basically we just take our notes in the scale and play those inversions. C for example; 1 = C major 2 = D minor 3 = E minor 4 = F major 5 = G major 6 = A minor 7 = B diminished With this basic information we should now be able to tackle transposing. Our chord progression was: C F Am G. This means that we are playing the first, fourth, sixth, and fifth chords. Keeping inversions we just take out the notes in the key of C and replace them with notes in the key of E. C major consists of the notes: C D E F G A B E major consists of the notes: E F# G# A B C# D# If you keep the notes in order it is easy to transpose them like this. 1. C major = E major 4. F major = A major 6. A mino r = C# minor 5. G major = B major Hope this helps. If anyone has any questions just shoot me a pm.
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