How To Change Key: 3 Methods from Easy to Hard

How do you change key? In this music theory tutorial, Guy Michelmore explains several ways of moving from one key to another when you're writing a song or a piece of music. From a fairly straightforward to more complex ways of modulating from one key to another (modulating is just another term for changing key). IN this tutorial Guy takes you through pivot chords, pivot notes, chord chains, changing mode rather than key right through to chromatic mediants.

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0:00 Intro
1:04 Pivot chords and how to use them to change key
1:48 A trip to a mountain in Italy
3:03 Key change example
4:50 Pivot notes
7:20 Chord chains and sequences
8:50 Changing mode
10:39 Direct Modulation
12:08 Conclusion