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	The Chord Scale

Rustee

4-15-2008 12:27 AM

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music theory, guitar

Rustee says:

This is also helpful in putting together simple progressions, or even whole songs.

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Plain C major scale:</DIV>
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We start out by harmonizing the major scale with thirds that are diatonic to the scale (diatonic means part of the scale). Below I included the resulting interval starting from each scale note:</DIV>
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If we add another third on top we get all triads within C major:</DIV>
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By adding another third on top we get all 7th chords within C major:</DIV>
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I cannot emphasize how important the above really is. Here lies the answer to questions like "How can I transpose this tune?" or "How can I improvise over this chord progression?".</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ibreathemusic.com/print/105"><DIV>
Again, forget about the fact that we used C major for demonstration and take a look at the formula for the individual chords:</DIV>
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This means that if you know the single notes of a major scale you also know which chords the scale contains.</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/45F94638-D994-462E-89C0-21A0B2880747/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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