Key Change using the Circle of Fifths
How do you change keys during a song? Is there a smooth way to make this shift? Here, we look at a classic song by George Harrison to see how the chord progression effortlessly moves between keys. And it's easy to see using the circle of fifths....
0:00 Welcome
1:53 George Harrison's "My Sweet Lord"
2:36 Looking at the chord progression (diagram)
3:58 Playing around with the song -- Guitar
4:56 Looking at the progression on the ChordMap
6:15 Playing the Intro chord progression -- Guitar
7:00 Playing the Verse 1 chord progression -- Guitar
8:12 Verse 1 on ChordMap
12:33 Playing Verse 2 progression -- Guitar
13:20 Playing Verse 3 progression -- Guitar
14:06 Playing Interlude progression -- Guitar
16:20 Checking back in with what this looks like on the ChordMap
18:03 Playing the progression again (picking up at Interlude)
18:26 Playing Verse 4 progression -- Guitar
19:36 Multiple cycles of reincarnation on guitar (secondary dominant to help transition into another key)
20:30 Retracing our steps with this transition on the ChordMap
23:07 ChordMap diagram highlighting this pattern
25:17 Q: Give me time to come up with questions to ask?
27:24 Q: So VI takes us up a pitch?
29:04 C: So you're saying this song is reincarnated?
29:26 Q: So if you go to vi dim, you'll go down a pitch?
31:40 C: Mid-song key changes are not an easy concept to master
32:42 C: Thanks for helping with comprehension
33:50 C: I feel so unenlightened
34:38 Q: Can you add heat maps to future song analyses?
36:50 C: "Runaway" switches from Aeolian to Ionian
37:59 C: Harrison was sued by Motown for that song
39:08 Q: How would you bring it home from a dominant 7?
41:09 Q: Chord Book progress? ETA?
43:28 Q: On ChordMap, was does the little o on outer ring mean? (Diminished)
44:45 Q: Can you use the system to add meaning? (eg, red is power)
45:41 Q: When Chord Book is ready, how can we get it?
46:26 Q: Where can I get a ChordMap? (Shop.MyColorMusic.com)
47:54 Wrap up
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