What bucking key am I in.

cloptrop

Trying to put a guitar solo on a song that has an am.c.em.dsus2 and an f in it .

Anyone know what key thats in itd help me alot thanks.

raindog.promo

C Major or A Minor. Both have the same chords.

cloptrop

Thanks alot dude .

paligulus1

Yep as long - you are not playing the F# note during the D chord - Am\Cmaj will do the trick.

If you are playing the F# in the D you can switch to Em over that chord (which is Dorian mode) for tasty results!

cloptrop

I got a picture of the c scale on a guitar neck and it fits all notes right at the top 3 frets of the guitar . Perfect . So if i did the same with the d scale would all notes of the d scale fit on that .??
I think Im having a bit of a eureka moment.

raindog.promo

Not too sure what you mean but, scales are moveable.
If you took your original chords (Em, F, Am, C, Dsus2) and moved them all up 2 frets (F#m, G, Bm, D, Esus2) then the key would be D major and you could solo with the D major scale.


Learn some modes, it's basically breaking up the major scale into bite size fretting positions. Handy way to learn the major scale up and down the fretboard and good for soloing.

Check this:
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=77424595&postcount=10

This would be a major scale in A Major.

cloptrop

The saga continues .
The solo was going to play over am c em d sus 2
My mate plays keyboard a bit .
I asked him to play these notes in a loop so I could try the solo on it .
He asked me the key . I said c .
His chords didnt sound the same as my chords .
It turns out his chords changed depending on the key . There are no sharps in the c scale he said. He then told me the notes he plays for a chord changes depending on the key he is in . Then said something about the circle of fifths and a youtube video .
Surely he is mixing things up and a c chord has a e c and g in it regardless of what key im in . But no apparantly if its in f it must have a number of sharps in it . Can anyone make sense of this . Have keyboards got some crazy laws that dont apply to other instruments ?

KeithTS

raindog.promo wrote: »

Learn some modes, it's basically breaking up the major scale into bite size fretting positions. Handy way to learn the major scale up and down the fretboard and good for soloing.

Not quite what modes are, I know your point but that's not how modes are used and if you point somebody just getting a grasp on scales towards modes it'll lead to utter confusion.

cloptrop

Nah i got the scales part . Thanks for that raindog its this feckin keyboard situation 2 posts up thats really stumped me .

cloptrop

Ah turns out his c inthe key of f was .......you guessed it an f.