How to hear the key of a song INSTANTLY 

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What helped me immensely was actually learning to play bass before guitar. That honed my ear to listen for the root note of the chords, then I just need to figure out if it's mayor or minor.

this riddle style video is awesome. also i like how you call us guitar chefs, sensei

I didn't really like watching shorts and this is just way better! Keep it up!

This is actually perfect!

To make it even easier, imagine that the song suddenly ends on one long note. The note you first thought of was probably the same note as the key.

Brandon making long videos hell yeah 🤜🏻🤛🏻

Playing along to songs is a great way to practice this. And yes listening to the bass helps alot too. This does get more complicated though with drop tuned metal though or Jazz

Keeos these videos up. I honestly love them.

27 seconds in I have to pick up my original 1962 usa strat . dang this guy rocks

I actually love how bright F major is. I didnt get it right but every time i play an F chord it blows me away how bright and beautiful it sounds

Thank you brandon😭

Teaching guitar on a completely different level, talking like a General to soldiers. Love that stuff!

Informative and to the point.

Welp, got the G at least. Good stuff, thanx

thanks brando!

Thanks!!

For us amateurs, why don't you demonstrate the technique used to find the key?

I got the first one wrong and the second one right, and third one right too, 4th one right too. So 75% accuracy on these easy examples. Whats harder is if you play two unrelated chords on the piano at the same time, and then try to identify those pitches from low to high. Now that’s hard without perfect pitch.

Got all of them right

This is useful, but more relevant for beginners. What I wish I could do as an intermediate guitar player would be to instantly figure out the chord progression of a song by ear with minimal effort. Any tips on how to learn that?

for the third example I was like "thats the same chord all the time how would I know what key it's in" i need to cut down on the CIGARETTES!

1:56 My ass is playing a god damn B Minor after going “yeah this shit is easy so far” GUESS IM QUITTING (I just did the relative minor of the next example GRAHHHHHHH)

Never played a song without knowing the key and chord progression first. Just write down what needs to be played.

1:12 me a bassist: 👁👄👁

I just play jazz on top of evrrything so eventually ill make the wrong notes the right notes

Thanks for the tips, nice video btw. do you edit them yourself?

WAIT I ACTUALLY GOT IT

It always makes me sad when Brandon tells me to just leave. I learn from this so I come back, but then he tells me to just leave again.

I got the G one right. No cigarettes for me!

My two were correct 😅😅-Bm and G maj

0 right … 😐 I honestly struggle to know what note/chord is being played unless I’m playing it myself. I might not be tone deaf but my tonal memory utterly sucks.

I'm surprised that I almost got the 1st and the 3rd

I think my ear is broken or something: I kinda got all of them... The first one I got perfectly: C Minor. The 2nd one I got D Major, the relative major key, so kinda right but not really. The last two were the ones that made me think my ear is broken: I didn't get them right, because I was thinking of their 5th instead of the actual key! G Major example? I thought it was D Major. F Major example? I thought it was C Major. To give me some credit, I wasn't using my guitar for these examples, I want to think that I would've probably got them all right if I were, but I was actually practing with a keyboard and didn't want to go grab my guitar for it lol

Just look at the lowest note the bass player is playing and call it a day. Leaves more time for cigarettes.

Minor pentatonic frequently sounds good over major chord progressions, so that isn't a great test

Ok, I hear the root note, but how do you know, which note it is??? You all have perfect pitch or something?

Day 10 of asking Brandon to explain relative minor theory

I recognized the third one as G "instantly" without having to actually do anything. That was a weird kind of luck I sometimes have. Typically, I use a keyboard in my living room. I don't play keyboard, but I use it to find the keys of songs I want to learn on guitar. But playing a bunch of notes to recognize a key is not "instant" by any understanding of that word I'm familiar with.

Why not just test for notes in key signatures? Identify modality first (typically major/minor) and test using the sharps/flats on the circle of 5ths. For example, if the F# or Bb does not feel consonant, then the song is likely in either C major or A minor (of course this does not account for non-diatonic notes like the raised leading tone but its alot faster than checking chromatically)

But I don't really know what keys are. I am new here

I dont understand this whole thing. The first example, there were obviously more keys than C minor. Only at the end it returned C minor. For example G sharp major.

Every time I try a song has a "borrowed chord" OR they didn't know theory so it contains whatever.

I cheated, i have perfect pitch 😐

I am like brand new to playing, I can play like 3 riffs and am practicing the pentatonic scale from the video a few days ago. Are there any tips other than just playing a lot more time because this is gibberish to me honestly. Then again almost all music theory words are completely gibberish to me, I spent a while the other night looking over the circle of fifths and think I kind of understand it but still am super lost.

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Well, I found what every root note was but always was off by a whole step 😅

1:10 But how am I supposed to know what each of the notes sounds like? How do I know the difference between a B, E and F note - for example? I am very analytical and tone-deaf.

BRO I ONLY GUESSED ONE OF THEM WRONG (without using guitar) i have perfect pitch? ;0

Dude. Minor pentatonic works over dominant chord. That is a major chord.

Do the genres of the song determine the key? The first time I heard a metalcore song I thought it was G major but taking a further look into the band, I realize it's a metalcore band and thatt It was e minor, so I was right. Considering Em is basically G maj's "brother"

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I cheated, i have perfect pitch 😐

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Or asking what keys are 😅

This is a sham. If you find A as the key and somehow figure out it a minor. How in the world would you miss C in the first place since A minor is C major. Lol

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You are so rude for a Canadian

I cheated, i have perfect pitch 😐