I Faked Perfect Pitch Using Only Guitar Chords(Here’s how)

What's good, y'? All? Have you ever thought to yourself, man, wouldn't it be awesome if I had perfect pitch? If so, you're just like me and I've got something awesome to share with you. Today we're gonna talk about how studying chords on guitar basically gave me the ability to fake perfect pitch and fool the people around me. So before we go any further, let me just show you what I mean. Alright, so I've got this random song generator. Essentially, I'm gonna generate a new song here and. And I'm gonna tell you what key the song is in. So this song is in the key of C minor. I happen to get lucky on my first one. All right, I'm gonna just click generate on another one. We've got Queen. Oh, Bohemian Rhapsody. So I'm just gonna play random notes. So this is in the key of B flat. Next one's going to be this is the Hourglass. I've never heard this song in my life. So this song's in the key of. This is in the key of C minor. Let's just do one more for good measure. I've got Shawn Mendes, Camila, Senorita. I'm just going to skip forward. So. So this is in the. In the key of basically C major or, you know, potentially A minor. So some of y' all are probably wondering, like, how the hell did he do that? And once again, I want to emphasize I do not have perfect pitch. Otherwise I wouldn't need to play a note at the beginning of each of the songs without the reference note. Like, I'm just like you guys. I would never be able to tell you what key is. I would be able to tell you the numbers of the chord progression, but I wouldn't know what the key is. And how did I do it? I'm going to show you the exercise that helped me do it right now. So look, we're gonna just do a brief overview of it because this is really part of a more bigger picture, structured approach. But essentially what we're going to do is we're going to take a chord, take a numbered chord. We'll just keep it simple right now. We'll choose the one chord. Let's be in the key of A. So basically we're going to take this A and we're going to basically play in chord, melody, style. We're going to learn the sound of every diatonic note over this particular chord, right? And so the first thing that we have is one we're gonna call. We're gonna Use numbers, not letters. That's the key here. So one to two on the same string, that's like a whole step. It's not really gonna count because we can't hear them together. Right. But the first one we have is 1, 2, 3. So you have 1 and 3. That's the best sound of 1 and 3 here. After three, we'll do a half step up to four. That's 1 and 4, right? 1 and 5. And so part of this is just being aware of, like, when you play these chord shapes all up and down your neck, like, exactly what notes are you playing? And so when we get to the. This next part. Six, right? 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. Well, in our one chord, it's made up of notes 1, 3, 5, and then sometimes 7. So basically, we're going to play our one on the. On the E string. We'll all play three here on the A string and then six, and it's like six. This is the sound of note six in my I chord. We can bring the six up to a seven. And then we have 1, 3, 7. Ah, that's a beautiful sound. That's the sound of seven in the one chord. Some of you guys might have played the shape. And then we have 1, 3, 1. After that we'll go to 1, and then we'll play two on our G string fourth fret. And so now the voicing of our chord could look a couple of different ways, but let's just play it as 1, 3, 7, and 2. By the way, just in case it wasn't abundantly clear. I'm not talking fret numbers. I'm talking, like, how these numbers fit in the 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 1, 2. If you feel lost, just play your scale up in this little four fret position from your fourth to your seventh fret. Okay? So after two, we've got three, right? And here we have a couple of different options. One of the. One of the easiest ways you can play this is one, one, and we'll actually skip our A string. And then we'll do seven and three. One, seven, three. And so, like I mentioned, the most important part of this thought process is that you're just keenly aware of every note that you're playing, because most of you guys are probably just playing chord shapes and strumming them out, and you have no idea what notes you're playing, especially when you get away from the one chord. Right? So we have 1, 7 or 1, 7, 7 and 3. After three, we can go to four. I'll play one. Four. Whoa. That's kind of a. That's a weird sound. But that is the sound of note four over the one chord. Are y' all picking up what I'm putting down? The whole idea is that we learn how every note sounds over every chord. After four, we go to five. I'm going to keep the same voicing that I used before. I'm going to skip my A string. So I have 1, 7, 3, 5. This is like a chord shape I'm sure many of you guys know, but were you aware that you're playing 1, 7, 3, 5? After 5, we can move this up to 6. 1, 7, 3, 6. That's a beautiful sound. I have that note 6 over my one chord, and then 7. This one's a little tricky to play sometimes, but I'm basically just gonna bar it with the. My index finger is gonna play both of those notes. So I have one. Skip my A string again. 7, 3, 5, 7. Anyways, the bottom line is that you know exactly what note you're playing, and then within this chord shape. Now what you can do is you can start to improvise and play around with these notes. And so I'll just give you a quick example of what that could look like. So I got seven. And improvise with awareness. That's the most important part. Seven, six, three, six, seven, six, three, two, five. Three, six, three, five, three, seven. One. And so for the sake of time, we'll just go over the one chord here. But basically, you can do that for all of your chords. And. And then it's like, basically what I was doing at the beginning of the video was I would play a note and I would ask myself, where am I in the key? And based on that, like, if I could hear that I was on note two, I knew that a half step down was. Was one was the key of my music. Right? And so if you're going to do this to another chord, I'm just going to do this really quick just to prove the concept. If I play this, like, little bar. Bar chord shape, I'm going to call out fret numbers here. We got seven, nine. And then the rest of them is just all seven. Right? I'm sure you guys have played this minor chord shape, but are you aware that if you're playing this on your 2 chord, these are notes 2, 6, 1, 4, 6, 2. That is what you need to know. And what's beautiful about this is, like, when you know all the notes that you put that you're playing when it's time to play in between the chords. I know that this top note is 2. I know that this one's 6, so I can play melodies there, you know. Actually, excuse me, I played it wrong there. So it would be 6, 7, 1, right? 4, 5, 6, 7 1, 2, 3, 1, 7, 6, 5. New 4, 5, 4, 3, 2 1, 2, 2. Everything relative to the tonal octave. And so, yeah, if you know how every note sounds over every chord, then you're never lost. Then you can find the key pretty much instantly within one note. People think you have perfect pitch and you kind of do. Or at least better than what I've had a lot of people say, like, man, I have perfect pitch, but I can't do the stuff that you do. And so all is not lost. If you're interested in taking the next steps in your journey as far as improvisation, composition, and ear training on your guitar, check the link in my bio. I've got some goodies for you there. I've got a free guide that you can download and that'll just help you go through this process in a more methodical, structured way to get you started on your journey. Thanks for tuning in and I'll see you guys next time. Drop any questions in the comments.