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When you need to change the chords of a song so you can get it in your singing
key this little device can make that chore easy for you. Takes approx
10 minutes to construct.  This device will save you a lot of time in
changing chords.  It's fast and accurate.

How to construct your Transposition Wheel

The first image you see is my animation of how the wheel is suppose
to work.  If you want that, just right mouse click and save as.
But the graphics you need for the construction of the wheel are
further down this page. 

Right mouse click on the Big Wheel image and view the image.  Once it's on your
screen by itself, send it to the printer. If you can't print it like that
then download it to your hard drive for printing later. Make a note of
where you put it and bring it into a graphic program and print from there.  
Do the same with Little Wheel image.

It's colorful here but if you only have a non-color printer 
the images will print clearly in  black and white.  But it really looks good
when printed on a color printer.  Some copy shops have color printers you can use.

Once you have them printed - cut them out.  If you print them out on plain
printer paper you may want to place them on a a stiff cardboard like a manilla 
file folder.  Encase them in a clear tape and they will last a long time.  
For the one I built I used a wide shipping tape but regular scotch tape will do.

Punch a small hole in each and hold them together with a brad paper holder.  I
used the brad to create my little holes.

A brad is a metal button with two pongs attached to the bottom.
Office supply stores know what they are if you don't.

You push the pongs of the brad first through the hole of the small wheel, then 
through the hole of the larger wheel.  Pull the brad legs apart until they
lie flat against the back of larger wheel.  This holds them together but 
allows the little wheel to turn. 
 Here is my animation I told you about earlier.  The graphics you need are 
further down this page. But if you would like this animation as well, just
right mouse click and save as. 




Well now that your transpositional wheel is complete, let's try it out.  
Take a tune you know and transpose it to another key.  Then play it with the new chords.

Hey what about minors and seventh and other chord notation?

No problem.  Change the chord but keep all notation of the original chord.
I.E.  Am to Cm  OR   B7 to  A7 OR B7sus9+5 to A7sus9+5

If this just all too much for you, then visit the Online Interactive Transposition
Wheel. You will need shockwave installed.  If you don't or don't know the web page
will help you to find out or help you get and install it.
This might ask you to install shockwave player.  Took me, as a 56k dial up, about 6
minutes to download it.  Says seconds for cable or a TI line.  I trust this web site
they've been at this for a long time. 
Online Interactive Transposition Wheel

HERE'S THE AREA FOR THE GRAPHICS YOU NEED TO CONSTRUCT THE WHEEL WITH.



Special thanks to Kenneth Smith (belnan@netcom.ca).   Kenneth noticed how
Blurry this wheel looked when printed.  So he worked on it until it 
printed a lot less blurry and sent me a copy of it.  
I have replaced my wheel with his work. 
bigwheel.gif is here                     litwheel.gif is here
if you don't see two wheels, one larger than the other, please email me
cause something is wrong.

   

Need bmps instead of gifs ?  Here's a zip file of two bmp files.

Big Wheel and Little Wheel Images as bmp files


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