Learn Major & Minor Related Keys in Jazz Guitar

Video Transcript

" Hi! My name is John Armstrong with expertvillage.com. I am a professional guitar instructor and today we are going to be studying beginning jazz guitar. Next it is important to discuss the concept of related keys. For every major key, there is a minor key that is related to it and vice versa. For every minor key there is a major key related to it. How we determine the relative minor of any major key is one of two ways; either it is the 6th note of your major scale. For example, if I was in the key of D major, 1,2,3,4,5,6 the B note, the B minor is my relative minor to the key of D major or not counting D as one of my 3 frets, move back 3 frets from the root note of the major scale. Like I said not counting D as one of my 3 frets moving back 3 frets gives me the same answer 2 different ways to come up with the same answer B minor. This will work in any situation where you are at the major scale looking for the related minor key. It's either the 6th note of the 3 frets back from the root note of the major scale. "