Someone who wants to use chords, but hasn't the ability to choose chords that are at least adequate to fit a given melody, probably also wouldn't know how to transpose to the corresponding chords for a different key if the original key is unsuited to their voice.


Eh? When I've really learnt a song my voice tells me where it needs to be pitched, and once I know that I can transpose chords more or less on the fly - "I'm starting on A instead of D, so that G7 needs to be a D7..." But finding the chords in the first place is still a black art.

When I first tried 'chording' songs I did assume it would be a fairly straightforward process - if you know what key the song's in, that gives you the I, then you just need to work out when to move to the IV or the V... Tain't necessarily so.