3. Scales to chordsLearn to play guitar with video lessons at JamPlay.com!These are many of the questions that I get asked when teaching the guitar. From my previous lessons you will have learnt that all music, regardless of genre, is made up of intervals. Also you should feel happy with the translation of the major scale into its modes. The major scale as we discussed consists of R, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and octave. Again we will focus on the C Major scale to derive the chords. The notes that are in a chord are the root its third and its fifth. The root is the "focus" of the chord, i.e. its name, the third is the note of the chord that establishes if the chord is major or minor, and the fifth determines whether the chord is diminished or augmented. This means that: For this lesson we will focus on the major and minor. From previous lessons the notes in the C major scale are: C, D, E, F, G, A, B, C Using the chord skeletons above we can now structure what chords are in the key of C Major. We have:
From the above table we have constructed the basic chords of the c major key. These are NOT exhaustive they are the bare bones. For instance the 4th chord often has a seventh added, making it a dominant seventh. R, 3, 5, 7 For a little exercise, try some of the more common extensions try these: That’s all for now, see you in my next lesson. Exclusive lesson for TabHeaven.com by Nathan. Please send a mail with questions, ideas of new lessons and other stuff. Back to all guitar, bass, drum lessons
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