• Registered: 2025-10-24
  • Posts: 27

Topic: Transposing About 12 Chord Changes

Hey everyone,

That was my dilemma trying to transpose a popular Platters song tonight.

I know there must be a way to "satisfy" the requirement of transpositioning, but leave it to me to "bump into" at least one of the difficult changes I was trying to avoid. This particular song has a "healthy" part of any morning's breakfast, with plenty of D9, D11, etc,.

I believe I may be going about this the wrong way. Instead of finding a song that I can sing to match the chords I know to my voice, I guess I'm trying to find  song I can play easily. *LOL*

Anyone else running into this?

Thanks!

Bill 

  • From: The Land Of Song
  • Registered: 2007-12-10
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Re: Transposing About 12 Chord Changes

Hi Bill, yes every day it seems. When I was playing with a group 40 years ago, I found a song I wanted to play namely "One Man Band" which I worked out from the record and practised in that key with the group in my front room. When we got to play it in concert, in battlefield conditions as I call it, I couldn't hit the key with any force so we didn't play it again. When I went solo a few years later I changed the key, hammered it out in my front room, full volume, and the song became a staple in my set. Lesson learnt, new songs had to be key checked at full volume and changed if necessary. About fancy chords I don't really fuss with them unless the song really calls for them so I stick to 6ths, 7ths and 9ths if I have to. Does that make me lazy?     

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