Lesson designed to help you determine the key of a song, even if you don't know what chords are being played. How to find the correct notes if you are beginner player, or if you know pentatonic scales or modes.

How to move up to a new key for the chorus and then move back to the original key for the verse.

B is a key that is not used too often on the guitar because of the barre chords - and not too many open chords.

A is a very popular guitar key with the 3 main chords A D E - which are easy to play, and all feature the open strings. This gives the key a very full sound on the guitar. There's more songs out there in A than you can shake a stick!

The key of F is not used as often for guitar because it has a lot of barre chords and not a lot of ringing open string ones. It can be a difficult key for beginners uncomfortable with barre chords.

E is a popular key and it uses the lowest E note available on a standard tuned guitar, and is a powerful Rock and Blues key standard.

D is a very popular guitar key with simple-to-add D embellishments such as and D sus2 (used in the outro) and Sus4 (covered later). Contains two barre chords.

There's only one barre chord to play in this one, the B minor, so it's an easy enough one to pick up for beginners. Most of the time you won't hear the m7b5 chord being used in songs as it isn't a very strong sounding chord.

A practical guide to using diatonic chord knowlege to determine the song's key.