hey guys johnathan here a game from guitar tips weekly calm head on over a sign up for your free email tips what keep my playing it well I'm sure you've noticed my fancy little cable if you saw me earlier capable video you will see that I had that little twisty knobby one right and it was kind of annoying well I managed to find my better one there is these kind of really cool they're really easy to use you just drop them on you're done right what key was am well I'm keeping at the fourth fret and I'm playing an open C form I'm not playing a C but I'm playing in the open sea form no well how do we figure that out what what what chord is the open C format the fourth fret well if you remember normally how do you find your root right you go down to the to the lowest note in the chord which in a C chord is the fifth string and so we use the fifth string again here and what note is that that's an e that's an e so this is actually a chord E major now you can see that I can play it this way too right sounds really cool so what we're talking about today is how to transpose when you're using a cable because in my last video I didn't make it quite clear enough and some of you mentioned that would be handy to have a bit of a rule of thumb or something like that to know how you can transpose to play along with someone else who is playing open chords let's take a game the key of E right that's the one four or five right head on over to one four five calm if you haven't already and check it out you'll learn a lot about the basic chord theory EA and B the one four five where are our minor chords while the relative minor of E is C sharp minor and the relative minor of a is f sharp minor and the relative minor of B is G sharp minor okay so those are the chords we're working with now right so if we're in the key of E and we want to transpose how do we figure out what chords were gonna play in the transposed key in the transposed fingering I should say right because we want to stay in the same key obviously if if you're playing by yourself and you just want to move the key up and keep your open chords then that's a totally different story right like I can play E and B like that and then if I capo here actually let's just go with the G C and D that's a classic example right nice there's no bar chords in there I've got a nice song in G and I want to keep away right and I can put that anywhere I want let's go back up to the 4th fret and get a totally different sound by playing the same both platforms right now that's gonna that's not gonna work if you're playing with other people great so that's that's cool if you're playing by yourself to just you know change the tone of the song change the pitch maybe it's easier for you to sing in but let's say you're playing with other people right the rest of the band is stuck in E and you want to play something different sounding but of course you have to stay in the key of E right ok so where do you go well you could go up one fret but then think about it where's your open e gonna be well that's gonna be really a gong show because you don't really have any open notes that you can work with right so the trick when you're using a capo is to think of this think of it in terms of where your open notes gonna be right so if you know your Barre chords and your basic Barre chord patterns are you know the open E major open E minor and a major right now those are your basic patterns that you use for four bar chords most of the time so think about those because your finger acts like a cable essentially right open name or a major the fifth fret it's the same as one going at the fifth fret and playing an E okay exactly the same so think about that as you're trying to figure out where you should you're going opposite fret work with your capo then you need to think in your mind and go down so not sure if that makes it immediate intuitive sense to you but say we're going to eat right we've got EA and B let's go up one tone to F sharp or que pueda the second fret we've gone up one tone on the guitar but we want to keep it in the key of E right so that means we need to move our chords down a tone right so what does he become he becomes D right we've gone down a tone D d sharp D d sharp D so what does it sound like if we play an open D with capable of the stick at the second fret Oh does that match any actually I'm not gonna undo the cable we'll just enemy bark we're at the seventh fret right yeah that's an E okay so we've gone down one for me let's go down one from a to a G is that a name that works let's go down one from b28 right that works too right so we've gone up one tone with the capo and then we've transposed our chord patterns down one tone so that we're using open chord formations to keep it with the rest of the band who's playing an open e right ok let's take that step further let's go up to tones and capo at the 4th fret well what's two tones down from e we got e d sharp D that's one tone D C sharp C right so now we're down to full tones from E and we've also gone up to full tones so that would give us a seat there's an open C form okay put it the fourth fret let's get parrot that works right okay what are our other ones we've got EA and B right so a go down to G go down to F right so we're playing an F well that actually isn't a right so can also play it play it like that and then what else do we have we have B a and G right so now think about it what's one four five in the key of C C F and G right and remember go over to one four five calm and check it out because this is basic foundational theory that you need to know about your guitar so you've got C F and G so basically we've transposed our chords down to keys and now here I am I'm playing K pode I'm playing in the key of C so I've got all night all my normal one four or five chords that apply alright I got C major F major G major a minor I'm losing it here what D minor a minor D minor and E minor right so let's see what that sounds like a minor great so there you have it a rule of thumb if you're going up you gotta go down okay just to balance it up right it's like you're you're you're you're starting key is here if you go up on the on that with the capo you need to go down transposing the chords that you're playing by the same amount to keep it even in the middle right so what else can you do let's let's apply that now we got to a different key with K well let's go up one fret from sorry remember it's always from the open notes right from the from the nut because that's that's where it is we can't go up from the G so let's go up 1 1 whole tone and now our cable has gone up a tone so we need to take our other chords down right so we were in G now we want to go down to F right so what ports are enough well we've got F B flat and C okay that works but that's not very convenient right we're still using Barre chords we haven't gained anything by using the capo so let's go up one more a semitone great and now now we get as if we're playing in in open E right so what are we done we've gone down three semitones from G so that's G F G F sharp F E right so it's three semitones so now we're using our open e chords because we've gone up three semitones with the cable so there we are with open e chords right the open E chord formations alright so I hope that made sense to you basically if you're going up on the with the with the capo you got a transpose your keys down by the same amount that you move it's about that simple right so I have fun with that if you got any other capable types for other people to know head on over to Qatar cubes weekly comm and make leave a comment under the lesson love to hear from you have a great day and we'll see you next time