Transitioning Between Songs on Guitar?
i’m not really new to playing guitar, but i pretty much suck at guitar theory. i’ve never really taken any lessons, just watching people play and learning songs that way.
so anyways, i’m putting together a medley of songs. if any of you have heard/seen gabe bondoc (for example), he does his medley of songs he wishes he wrote by playing the chorus or the first verse + chorus on guitar and singing then switching to another song. i’m just wondering if there are any tips on doing that? i know for the most part, switching between songs makes it easier if they are in the same key, but i honeslty don’t know what songs are in what key. i can’t play guitar by ear and i just can’t tell. all i can tell is that the songs are in different keys (sometimes.)
so any good tips? like…playing an arpeggio that leads into a different key so i can play a different song? i don’t really know any good ways to transition between songs besides just slowing down and hitting the next chord that happens to be on the next fret in the same hand position.
There’s really no easy way to do that without knowing some kind of music theory, or by simply doing the "Trial & Error" method.
But basically switching to the Same Key, the Parallel Key, or the Relative Minor are the best ways to switch to another song. It depends on the song though to do an appregio or hit the 7th or whatever way you’d like to do it. Switch Keys even in it’s parallel can be tricky because you want to do it at one of the similarities of chords / notes.
Sorry I can’t help you anymore. But start figuring out how to find Keys. Major formula, etc.
But basically if you look at two similar Keys such as Key of G Major and Key of C Major. They are next to each other on the Circle of Fifths. That means only one note separates them.
G Major: G, A, B, C, D, E, and F#
C Major: C, D, E, F, G, A, and B
So the F and F# are the only differences.
But the chords can be different too:
G Major: G Major, A Minor, B Minor, C Major, D Major, E Minor and F# Diminished.
C Major: C Major, D Minor, E Minor, F Major, G Major, A minor and B Diminihed.
So your common chords are: G Major, A Minor, C Major, and E Minor. So doing ths switch on one of those chords would be your best bet.