

You don’t need to calculate how many whole or half steps are between the two keys. The first nice difference from the Tabulator is you can just choose the name of the original and new keys from drop down lists (Entered at the big red #2). Here’s our example pasted into the input screen: It’s available at Logue Internet Services.

I’m not sure of the official name for this tool. This next tool has a cool feature that lets you paste in you chords and lyrics but optionally will output the transposed chords with guitar chord diagrams. This window is traditional black font color on a white background. 3 If you click on the New Window button you get the chords in a window where you can select the font. You can highlight the text of either so you can copy/paste it back into a document, or you can save the results as an RTF file (readable by most word processors). After you click on the transpose button you are shown the transposed and original chords. You can type or paste in chords, chords and lyrics or chords and ascii tab. The Tabulator requires you to know how many whole and half steps the new key is from the original. You can just type in the chords if you need to. It’s best if you are able to copy/paste the chords & lyrics from a web page or a text document – but not essential. Google “ transpose chords online” to find a tool.
#Convert biab to ireal pro manual
This is much faster than the manual method I showed above, but may not be as fast as doing it in your head on the fly if you’re able to.
#Convert biab to ireal pro plus
If all you have is the chords or chords plus lyrics for a song and you want to transpose them to a new key, there are free online tools which will easily and quickly do this for you. That wasn’t too hard was it? But there are easier ways if you need them. Here’s what this manual transposing looks like for our example. Everything after the note name remains the same. Then, for each chord you lookup the note name (root of chord) in the Original row and find the new chord in the New row.

To make it even easier, I can write the chromatic scale starting with F beneath the original scale that started with C. I can see that F is 5 notes higher than C by counting up from C to F on the original chromatic scale. Lets line up the scales to see what this looks like.
#Convert biab to ireal pro full
This is also said to be 5 half-steps higher or 2 full steps plus 1 half step 2. F is 5 notes higher on the chromatic scale. In order to transpose this, you need to know the chromatic scale and how many steps higher or lower the new key is from the original key. It might even be that the chord shapes for the key of F fit the song better. Or maybe you’re accompanying yourself as you sing and the range of your voice fits the key of F better. Why? Maybe you’re in a band and the horn player tells you that’s they key that works best for his or her instrument.

Now let’s say you want to transpose this to the key of F. Let’s say you have a piece of music with the following chords in the key of C. This section is for beginners so the rest of you can skip to the next section. Basic Transposing for Beginnersįirst, let’s review the problem and the non-software solution to transposing. The good news is there is a lot of help available in software, online tools or smartphone apps to make this easy. But I’m out of practice, or just older and lazier or maybe the brain cells are dying – but I struggle more than I used to when transposing a tune with complicated jazz chords to different keys. When I was younger I used to be able to transpose more complex chords into most keys as I played. I don’t have any trouble transposing a simple tune with C, F and G7 chords into most any other key.
