Find The Chords To Any Song On Guitar In 3 Steps (Without Tabs or Sheet Music)

Have you ever seen those musicians that can just listen to a song once and figure the whole thing out? Being able to figure out the chords of a song by ear is a skill many new guitarists think is reserved for geniuses and prodigies — but it’s actually really easy! In this lesson, I want to show you a 3-step system that will have you finding the chords to just about any popular song without the help of tabs or sheet music.

We’ll start by going over two important music theory concepts — you can watch the full videos for those here:

Finding The Notes On The Guitar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KwMsuTKGkk
Understanding The Major Scale: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wE8nzruMWM

Once you’ve got that down, we’ll get into the 3-step system. The first step involves finding the key of the song using a moveable major scale shape. Step two will have you placing a chord roadmap so you know which guitar chords occur in the key of the song. Finally, in step three, you’ll listen to the song and pick out the correct chords from your roadmap.

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Chapters:
0:00 – Intro
0:34 – Prerequisite #1: Finding the note names
2:00 – Prerequisite #2: The major scale
3:13 – The Major/Minor Formula
4:55 – The moveable roadmap (same shapes in any key)
8:31 – Step 1 – Identify The Key
9:20 – A quick example
11:01 – Step 2 – Apply The Roadmap
11:34 – Step 3 – Listen & Locate
11:53 – 3-Step System Summary
12:07 – Song Example #1
13:25 – Song Example #2
15:26 – Why can pros do it so fast?
15:43 – Song Example #3
17:16 – Songs with multiple chord progressions
17:47 – Non-diatonic chords
18:14 – Why playing by ear is so important
18:58 – Outro
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— Gear I used in this video —
Guitar: Suhr Classic S Antique
Amp: Dr. Z EZG-50
Pedals: Origin Effects Cali76 Deluxe, Universal Audio Golden Reverberator
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Music Credits:
Georgetown Cafe by Popoi | https://soundcloud.com/popoimusic
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