How to transpose chord progressions
Hey folks!
We’re getting closer to releasing Ultimate Guide To Chords and things are really starting to heat up around here. I just need to clarify a couple of things:
- We are not accepting pre-orders at this time. We’ve gotten several calls/emails about this. We’re just not set up to handle orders for this product right now. In fact, we don’t even have the product in stock yet! But, we may do this like a day or two before the “official” release. I’m not sure. Let me know your thoughts. (Post below).
- Yes. There will be manual that gives you all the tab, chords, etc. It’s just not shown in the spy photo because I’m not finished with it yet.
Here are 2 videos from the DVD 1 of the Ultimate Guide To Chords. I watched these before we made this post. And I realized that unless you understand the roman numeral system (RNS), some of this isn’t going to make a lot of sense. I go over RNS in great detail in the course. But, in these videos I already assume you know how it works.
Anyway, I think you’ll still be able to benefit from these videos. But I’ll try to give you a more detailed video about how it works a little later. Go check out these videos and let me know if you have any questions by posting your comments below.
Cheers,
Dan Denley
From DVD 1 of Ultimate Guide To Chords: Transposition
From DVD 1 of Ultimate Guide To Chords: Using Parallel Major/Minor
July 2nd, 2008 at 12:41 pm
Wow! I hope I can eventually understand all that. That could improve my enjoyment of my guitar 100%.
Looking forward to see more!
John
July 2nd, 2008 at 1:01 pm
I could really use this tool. Looking forward to it’s release. Thanks Dan
July 2nd, 2008 at 1:17 pm
Looking forward to the new course. I think this will be one of the most interesting courses so far. Are there any plans to do a download version of the course so that us guys here in the UK can perhaps reduce postage charges.
July 2nd, 2008 at 1:44 pm
Got to hand it to you Dan , your always coming up with better and better material . Your presentations are always precise and easy to follow along with ….. Good Luck in all your ventures .
July 2nd, 2008 at 1:56 pm
i don`t really interesting this course,i like solo lessons and long scalas over to guitar but tank you very
much.
looking forward
July 2nd, 2008 at 3:24 pm
Any new material from you is great material!! Let me know when it’s ready. Sign me up!
July 2nd, 2008 at 4:12 pm
Thank you for taking the mystery out of music and making it all come together for me
July 2nd, 2008 at 5:23 pm
I’m looking forward to this course. Of course, price is key especially in today’s economy. These 2 videos are really good and typical of the quality of your work. Your effort is appreciated.
July 2nd, 2008 at 5:33 pm
Dan, very nice. I liked these two videos alot. I still can’t change from one chord to another and I have just about had enough, so I probably will never get to this point. You do great work and I enjoy listening to you play. Thank you for all of your hard work.
July 2nd, 2008 at 5:43 pm
An important consideration re this material is that you can transpose the music perhaps to a KEY that you know how to play…Some written song might be in “Bb” and changing it to “C” might be the difference between BEING ABLE to play the song or NOT…
FOR singers the transposition might allow you to SING the song in a KEY that is more comfortable for your voice…
Good Luck…Vernon L Poe, Phd.
July 2nd, 2008 at 6:06 pm
Hey Dan, I like all of your cources so far and it looks like you have another hit with Ultimate Guide To Chords.
July 2nd, 2008 at 6:11 pm
yea just great info even though it may take a while to get it down pat rome wasn’t built in a day
just plain good stuff
July 2nd, 2008 at 6:19 pm
Dan, These two clips are very good. It will give everyone options on songs they might want to write.
(edit this part if you wish…. on your back ground use another color that is not as dark as your shirt. We see head, arms and hands with a guitar. Maybe a lighter color shirt)
Finding out how to use chords progressions properly is something everyone should understand.
To have this all together on CD’s will help anyone increase their knowledge on how to play a guitar.
Good work, Steve Givens Ok.C.
July 2nd, 2008 at 7:25 pm
Hey Dan,
It looks like you’ve done a nice job on this course so far. Can’t wait to see the complete set. Keep up the chops and God Bless.
P.S. Steve on 7/02/2008 was correct. A color change, of shirt or background would be much improvement.
Thanks James
July 2nd, 2008 at 8:39 pm
Hey Dan,
Ive been playing a long time, just a self taught back yard boy,there are a few holes in my theory though, so this course is definitely a good fit for me. anyone reading this comment that is just begging to play…do yourself a favour get a hold of this course and give yourself a solid playing foundation. You will be so glad you did. Keep the good stuff coming Dan…cheers mate, paul.. Australia. how is the new bubbie?
July 2nd, 2008 at 9:57 pm
Hi Dan looks like another great course. I’m just finishing up the acoustic course, it’s great. Thanks. I need to know what course is best for improving Rhythum study. Thanks Charles
July 3rd, 2008 at 12:16 am
Hi Dan,
A couple of great lessons but I still don’t understand the fret board at all. I’m only a 3 chord player even after almost 10 years of trying to learn the guitar. No one has taught me how to play by the way. I’m only picking it up as I go along the way. I’m still learning how to strum too. I try to play slow songs like silent night or something song like that. I think I am progressing very slowly though. Another problem is learning how to bar chords, I just can’t seem to do that. Thanks so much for your lessons and for your patience. Matthew
July 3rd, 2008 at 9:03 am
Excellent keep em comin.??
July 3rd, 2008 at 9:30 am
Dan,
I have found your calm/laid back demeanor to be a huge benefit to learning guitar via this media. You slow things down and work hard to make sure your students understand whats going on. That is appreciated. By far the best DVD teacher out there.
July 3rd, 2008 at 11:12 am
Dan! I have been playing for about 40 years now, Off and on, mostly off. Now that I am retired I want to get more serious about my guitar playing. What you have shown to me has really helped. Thank you very much.
David M.
July 3rd, 2008 at 12:00 pm
I’ve alway wondered how I could change keys to gain a “heightened” effect for the last verse or portion of a song in church. Transposing to the perfect Vth seems to work! You are really a gifted teacher. Let me know when the “Ultimate Guide to Chords” becomes available!
July 3rd, 2008 at 2:52 pm
Excellent presentation! I am sure this will help
alot of folks! Keep up the good work!
July 3rd, 2008 at 3:13 pm
Really cool to understand how some out-of-scale chords are derived from. Thanks,
Flavio C. Sauda
July 3rd, 2008 at 4:04 pm
First of all: excuse me for clerical errors: I live in Belgium and speak dutch. The second video in this mail of yours made me feel really content.For years I play the guitar, picking up bits and pieces of theoretical knowledge and practical dexterity along the way, to get as much pleasure as possible out of it without having to study like an academic or having to train myself to pick with lightning speed: I’m lazy but eager to learn.I started to analyse chord progressions in songs that sound like “easy” to play and yet valuable and intriguing, practising the virtue to compose my own. I felt and noticed through analysing that the intriguing effect mostly isn’t created but by means of chords in the progression that aren’t proper to the root scale and still in a mysterious and teasing manner seak their way to resolve in a root that might even be far away but still so blood-related to the one you started from. One of the bits and peeces of theory I picked up as a reference were fragments of theory of harmony about the circle of quints,f.e. a II-V-I progression. In your video, you showed me that composers also use the “parallel major scale” to modulate the chords in a progression. The glorious,liberating feeling that was roused by the final chord in the video was generated by ending and resolving the chord progression into the major root chord in stead of the expected minor root chord (”pickery thirtd”?). I mean: you learned me one of the secret formulas to rouse a good feeling , playing and improvising over modulating chord progressions. The value of that secret is directly proportional to its simplicity: it’s a Eureka, “es ist eine aha - erlebnis”. So I’m really looking forward to the release of your Ultimate Guide To Chords. Thank you, sir: you made my day.
July 3rd, 2008 at 6:42 pm
Hey Dan. I do not understand much about chords and progressions or chord construction since I am very new to guitar. I have been watching and listening many times over the videos you’ve sent me and have to say the way you explain all these lessons shows patience and true desire to transmit your knowledge to the student. I realize understanding will come study and one must go from one to ten, and so, although I may not understand completely these bits the ways and manner of your teaching will make these clear by taking the complete course. I am on my way to get the first since I am a novice Novice, but I am completely sure I’ll progress to the others. Thank you for continuing to include me by sending these videos.
Have you thought of creating in the future a sort of encyclopedia of guitar learning?
July 3rd, 2008 at 11:30 pm
Hey Dan !
Loved the second video, but, the first one was confusing, as it didn’t show the progression being played in D, before you talked about transposing it to A.
Your fellow Christian musician friend,
Don
July 7th, 2008 at 11:36 am
Enough teasing! Get it released!
Looks good so far!
July 8th, 2008 at 1:06 pm
Good to see you still at it Dan. I never even thought of the shirt as the listening seemed more important to me.
You have sent me a great review of the basics of numbered progressions and how it is figured in to the scales. The transposition example was very clear to me, perhaps all those singers I worked with in the past helped.
The parallel major/minor works I find rather sour although the point was made about resolving in minor or major chords the a minor in this example is not pleasing to my ear.
Each lesson you give is a benifit to all guitar players, new or old.
Thanks Dan