It’s time to apply our knowledge of chord patterns to real life songs. In our previous blog, we learned that chords appear in the same sequence, regardless of which key we are in. That sequence is: I IImi IIImi IV V VImi VIImib5 Applied to the key of C we get: I IImi IIImi IV […]
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Basic Chord Theory – Triads Part II
There are seven chords in every diatonic scale – since each of the seven notes in a diatonic scale can become the root of a chord. We already extracted the first two triads from the first two notes in the C scale, resulting in C major and D minor chords – C and Dmi. Picking […]
Basic Chord Theory – Triads
The most basic chord in music is the Triad – or three-note chord. In practice, we don’t actually call them triads – instead, we reference triads as simply major or minor chords – examples: C Dmi Emi F G Ami. There are times when two-note chord fragments are useful for keeping multi-instrument arrangements clean sounding. […]
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