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Capo Table shape

How Do I Change Key?
There are many ways of changing key – the one you use depends partly on whether you are going to a near or far key.

Using Chord V
The simplest way is to play chord V of the key you want to get into and from that chord proceed to chord I of the new k
D (instead of Dm as in C). If this chord V is played as a dominant seventh, the change is strengthened. That gives us thi

CFGFCDmD7G

At the end of this, we are in G major. If that last chord then becomes a G7, we can go straight back to C because G is ch
take you into a minor key, as G7 is the dominant seventh of C minor as well as C major. The key chord to which you're
effect is weaker and in the case of going from C to G ambiguous, since C (I in the old key) is IV in the new key (G).
A sequence of dominant seventh chords can create a sense of passing through a series of keys. Take this sequence, starti

F#m B E A D Bm A