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Tansposition: Why You Use a Capo
Transposition refers to moving a whole group of notes (such as the entire melody of a song) up or down in pitch.
- If you play guitar, you can do this easily without even changing chord fingering. All you do is move your capo up or down the fretboard.
- On the piano, it’s not so easy. You have to change the way you finger the melody and chords for every dang key you play in.
You can use tables 24, 25, 26, and 27 for transposing. They show you, row by row, the scales for each key. If you’re singing in the key of C major and you want to know what notes you’d be singing if the tune were transposed to E major, just go to Table 24 and compare the C Major row with the E major row. For instance, if you want to transpose the notes C, D and E in the key of C major to the key of E major, the equivalent notes would be E, F♯, and G♯.
It’s that simple.