How to transpose using a capo | Beginner guitar lesson

Learn how to transpose or change the key of any song. Also get the Simplified Transposing cheat sheet, to take the guess work out of transposing.

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[bradcrane]

Probably the most practical and useful guitar tutorial video anyone could ever come across.

[DaBeatsFreak]

Holy holy holy camoly😱 . Dude u r genius. Last couple of months I started to learn to play guitar. Suddenly I was confronted with capo. Not even a clue what it does. I Iooked for hours to explanations. No one is clear about it, untill now. This is so amazing. U opened a bandora box for me with this. U r da best. With ur explanation you don’t even need cheat sheets. It’s just about moving a half semitone for every fret the capo cut off from the neck. This video is epic along with the cheat sheet which made it so very easy now. Thank you much for this video mister. U r da best. 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾 🏆 🏆🏆🏆🏆

[itslechico]

May the Lord bless you, your family, your children, grandchildren, your pets and your couch brother! This is EXACTLY what I needed as I was getting high blood pressure from endless YouTube tutorials 😢….I can finally play properly now!

[chin]

As pointed out by the Administrator of Neck Diagrams, the notes on the fretboard do not change whether you use a capo or not. What changes is the shape of the chords.

[seungwooyoo]

Easy to understand and applied immediately! Thank you so much!

[rogerd]

Ok....this is hands down the best video I have seen on this subject!! Thank you.

[AdamBlumer]

Excellent! This is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you.

[edwill]

wow that was easy enough...geesh and in just a couple watching several other sites, and scratching my head several was fast

Thank you.

[jaygleason]

Holy Cow! This guy just turned the lights on for me.

[sreejitchatterjee]

It helped me figure out a song super easily.. thanks mate

[brownpunk]

Really hope someone here can help me..im learning a song with capo on 1st fret.using chord shapes of C G F Am...so what scales should i use to do some solo and lead stuff..im so confused..will it be c# scale or c scale?
Thanks in advance

[geralynpalacol]

this Lesson “Coach”! THANKS SO MUCH!!!🙏🙏🙏

[ritchie]

I love to play the piano in flat key signatures

..now I can play my guitar over it.. thanks

[dm]

Great stuff Jonathan, Really easy to follow now I just have to figure out what key I sing in. Thanks

[kingdomreachministries]

Hi, thank you for this lesson. I don't want to sound like a dummy but I don't understand the new version of this cheat sheet. It looks completely different now (V2) is there an explanation for this new version somewhere? Thank you :)

[jeffrittenour]

I wish I had this on a poster in my bedroom growing up, next to the chord shapes poster everyone has.

[davet]

If you're playing in open G and it's a bit too high for your voice, is there anything wrong with using capo, eg around 4th fret, and singing an octave lower?

[jasondunn]

Any link I can click on it and download to my iPad? Thanks

[laneb]

Why is the transposing cheat sheet from the link different from the one you show here. The one I printed out is confusing

[pkoniecki]

Thanks for your help and the awesome cheat sheet!