The most common chord spellings are: Major – 1, 3, 5. Minor – 1, b3, 5. Diminished – 1, b3, b5. Augmented – 1, 3, #5. All you have to do is plug these chord spellings into your root note major scale for them to work. For instance: if you take the 3rd chord as an example (D major), you will use the major scale of the root note (D).
Non-tertian Chords Of The Harmonic Minor Scale. As we calculated in the Chords of the Melodic Minor article, any heptatonic scale has 99 unique chords (not including different voicings of those chords): 35 three-note chords. + 35 four-note chords. + 21 five-note chords. + 7 six-note chords.
Harmony in music – Jacob Collier. The two chords that provide a dominant function in a progression are the V and VII chords. In a Major key, the V is Major, and the vii is diminished, and in a minor key, the VII is Major, and the V is also generally Major but sometimes minor. A dominant chord usually leads to a tonic chord.
I-IV or 1-4. Why not start off with one of the most basic chord progressions of modern rock and pop, the simple 1-4. You have heard this in songs like these. · Traffic – “Feelin Alright”. · Sly and the Family Stone – “Everyday People”. · Bruce Springsteen – “Born in the U.S.A”. · Wilson Pickett – “Midnight Hour”.
The rule is to use Major pentatonic scales over major chords and minor pentatonic scales over minor chords. This works well for most chords. All you need to do is switch scales with the chord changes. For example, if the progression was Dm7 – G7 – Cmaj7, you could play D minor pentatonic, G major pentatonic, C major pentatonic.
The outer ring has the Major chords, the inner ring has Minors. Look at the top left of the wheel. 6A = G Minor, and is positioned next to 6B = B♭ Major. These are ‘relative’ chords – very useful when writing chord progressions as you know they’ll sound ‘correct’ even when played on top of one another.
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minor scale chord progressions
