The,Relationship,Between,Keys, entertainment The Relationship Between Keys & Chord Forms
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Inmy last article, Guitar Chord Theory Hang-in There Its a Long Story we lookedat scales and the order of steps and half-steps that are used to make a scale.If you havent read it you probably should as it will make this article mucheasier to follow. Its important to remember that different scales have adifferent number of sharps or flats in them. Akey for our purpose is a bunch of related chords that sound good together. Ifyou already play guitar you may have noticed that a song that starts with a Cchords is very likely to have F & G chords with it and maybe an Am chordalso. This tells us that the song is in the key of C, not so much because thesong starts on C but because if the relationship of the chords, if the songstarted on the F chord it is still in the Key of C. another example would be asong with G C D and maybe Em, this song would be in the key of G because of therelationship of the chords. Lets use the C Major scale as it suits the purposebest. C Major Scale: C D E F G A B C Scale Degrees: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Roman Numerals: I II III IV V VI VII VIII All major chords are made up of the 1st,3rd and 5th degrees of a scale. This would give us in theKey of C: C E G This is known as a tonictriad. The C is the root note of the scale and chord. It is also thetonic note. C E G is a C major tonic triad. Tonic since it has the C as thefirst note and triad since it has three (tri) notes in it. When we talk of chords built on the differentdegrees of a scale we use Roman numerals. The most important and best sounding chords thatblend in with the C Major scale are chords that are built on the IV & Vdegrees of that scale. This gives us chords built on F(IV) and G(V). A chord/tonic triad built on the IV i.e. F would beF A C (F A C being the 1st, 3rd and 5thdegrees of an F scale) the chord/tonic triad would be an F Major chord.Achord/tonic triad built on the V i.e. G would be G B D (G B D being the 1st,3rd and 5th degrees of the G scale) the chord/tonic triadwould be a G Major chord. The reason these two chords are so suited to C isthat they both have notes in common with the C Major chord. F(IV) has the noteC in common and G(V) has the G note in common. These common notes make thechanges between the chords easy on the ear. Both the IV and V are majorchords. The next most likely chord to be used is one that isbuilt on the VI degree i.e. A and the 1st 3rd 5thof the A scale is A C# E, well we shouldnt have a C# in a in it as there isnot a C# in the C scale. The C# must become a C and would then be A C E andthis is an A minor chord. So in any key, a chord built on the VI of the scaleneeds to be a minor chord. This follows with all chords built on the notes of ascale, they must conform to the C scale. All chords we wish to play in a key should be builton the notes of that scale. This applies to any key we play in i.e. in the keyof A we use only the notes of the A scale. In the key of G only the notes ofthe G scale. Below is a chart with the C major scale and thedifferent chords that can be built on each degree of the scale, the note foundin each chord, and the type of chord. All other Keys have the same association of chordsi.e. the II, III & VI should always be a minors. The VII will always be aminor b5. It isn't essential that this method be used and manysongs have been written using whatever chords the writer likes. It does however give us the theory behind compatiblechords that can be used as additional or passing chords within a song. Chords built on the scale degrees Scale Degree Tonic Triad Chord Type C I C E G C (Major) D II D F A Dm (Minor) E III E G B Em (Minor) F IV F A C F (Major) G V G B D G (Major) A VI A C E Am (Minor) B VII B D F Bmb5 (Minor b5) C VIII C E G C (Major)
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