You're going to. Oh, Welcome to the guitar music theory

podcast. I'm Desi Cerna, author of Frontboard Theory, Guitar Picking Mechanics, Guitar Theory for Dummies, and more.

This podcast features free guitar lessons that focus on music theory for guitar, including guitar scales, chords,

progressions, modes, composition techniques,

improvisation, and more.

The lessons are geared toward intermediate level players on up.

You can follow along on either an acoustic or electric guitar.

Bass players can take away a lot from the lessons too. Today's podcast episode is a previous recording in which I discuss what the key of a song is. You learn about tonic pitches, relative major and minor, modes,

and key signatures. This lesson is based on my book, fretboard theory, Volume 2, Chapter 1. You're going to. Hi, I'm Desi Cerna.

Hi, I'm Desi Cerna, author of fretboard theory

and fretboard theory volume two.

In this free guitar lesson, I'm going to teach what the key of a song is.

This will include a discussion of tonics, relative major, and relative minor, modes, and key

signatures. Okay, so what is the key of a song? You know, musicians will always refer to a key of a song. This is in the key of this song this is in the key of this or this is in the

key of that but oftentimes there are different ways that you can look at a piece of

music and you can identify it in different ways so one person person might say, well, this is in the G scale,

but another person might say, no, this

is in the Dorian scale.

Or there are always more additional details about a piece of recorded music that will help you

understand how it's composed and what the real key is, but often these details are left out and people

just give you very general information about a song.

And also sometimes people will always refer to the first chord in a song no matter what it is, even if it's not actually the key and even if it's not the primary chord in the song.

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