…to become a better musician! The proper care and feeding of a musician is important for healthy development. There are many things you can do to improve, while there are some things that disrupt or cause bad habits. It is important to know both of these in order to properly optimize and grow your musical […]
Posts Tagged ‘chords’
Beyond Triads: Seventh Chords
Before indulging ourselves into the tasty world of seventh chords, let’s review how we got here: The diatonic major scale is made up of a specific sequence of half-step and whole-step intervals. Every diatonic major scale has the exact same sequence of half-steps and whole-steps. The key of C is the only “natural” diatonic major […]
Seeing Chord Patterns In Songs
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 […]
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 […]
Just For Doug – but good for everyone
Though this post applies specifically to Doug, I thought it could be instructive for everyone to see, so decided to make it an open post. Incidentally, Doug Ross is one of the finest musicians I know – his primary instruments being drums and Dulcimer – for which he is an expert on both. Feel free […]
Recent Comments