I am having trouble figuring out the patterns from a root note song that I see from the internet. I don’t get the patterns right. Using root note and patters I know don’t sound right. I am finding myself stumbling all over the neck to find the correct root note that isn’t the same as on the paper. It says that it is a G but I hear it as, and match it with a C. ???
Can you be more specific? What song(s)? Where are you getting these tabs?
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This is one of the songs we are singing. I just don’t understand how to play a pattern that sounds anything like the song. I am being told that some songs we need to play root notes and a small added flair to it but not much. OK, well I cannot even find the root notes because they give me this and it isn’t the right key. I guess I’m just not getting it yet.
We sing it in the key of C but then it is transposed to something else.
So it’s actually being sung/performed in the key of C, but the chart notes you get are for the song in the key of G? Is that correct?
What I’d want to do, is take the chart given to you, and convert the note letters into Nashville Numbers. (I.e. If the chart says key of G, then G=1, A=2, B=3 … F#=7) Then you just need to know the pattern, and can plop that into any key.
For this particular song, if it’s charted in G, but sung in C… the easy button is just to move everything up one string.
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I believe you should be able to transpose that chart from G to C on the site. However, as @BeerBaron mentioned, converting it into Nashville Numbers will make this much easier to just apply it to C.
Side note, strange that this chart is in G. Was that default? Because after a quick listen, it’s the Key of Bb.