[musictlk] Chord chart

[Brandon Keith Biggs]

Hello,
You don't really need one, just know the intervals
major third minor third is a major
minor third major third is a minor
for example:
c, e, g = major third, minor third (c, e = major third), (e, g = minor 
third).
c, eb, g = minor third, major third. (c, eb = minor third), (eb, g = 
major third).
Don't just use your tts and scroll over those descriptions, read them 
letter by letter or they won't make sense.
 From what you gave as an example, you are getting lost with inversions 
as well.
Each chord is basically 3 notes, and they are bassed off something 
called a "root". This "root" is what we say when we reference the chord: 
"C minor chord, G major chord, E major chord..."
The root is what we base everything off of. The other notes can be 
either above or below the root in the scale, so the chord can be: e, c, 
g or g, e, c or g, c, e or any order you can think of.
But when you are trying to figure out a chord, you pick apart the notes 
and put them into what we call root position. That is:
c, e, g
In root position you have 2 3rds of some quality stacked on top of one 
another.
Try and process the above and really understand it, because all chords 
are based off 3rds in some way. They are all stacked 3rds.
Once you get that idea, you can move to using the thought that a triad 
is composed of a root, a 3rd and a 5th. That means that from the root, a 
triad has a note that is both a 3rd above it and a note that is a 5th 
above it. So a triad is both 2 3rds stacked on top of one another and it 
is a 3rd and a 5th above the base. Most musicians think of chords as a 
3rd and 5th above the base. That is because when you move to non root 
position chords, (e, g, c) you look at the bottom note which is actually 
called the bass. So in a root position chord you have the root as "the 
bass" in the chord (e, g, c), you have the e as "the bass".
When referencing the chord you only need to know the root, bass and 
quality in order to tell someone what to play on the piano. A chord in 
this format is:
G root position minor chord.
Root position is often just referenced as "G minor" rather than saying 
"G root position minor".
With E in the bass on a c chord, we call it "first inversion". That 
means that:
bass = e
root = c
quality = major
so you would say: "c first inversion major chord".
This holds true for all triads.
If you have g in the bass on the above c major chord, it would be called 
"second inversion". So you would say "c second inversion major chord".
bass = g
root = c
quality = major
There are other chords that add extra notes in thirds above the 5th, so 
you have something like: "c, e, g, b" and that is called a C7 chord. But 
don't worry about those right now. Just get the 2 main qualities, major 
and minor and that all chords are 3rds stacked on top of one another 
which is also known as a root, 3rd and 5th.
The major chord is exactly the same as the minor chord, but the 3rd is a 
half step down in the minor chord from the major chord.
so write back with your own chord chart based off the above description. 
I'll give you an example:
c, e, g = c root position major chord
c, eb, g = c root position minor chord
c#, e#, g# = c# root position major chord
c#, e, g# = c# root position minor chord
d, f#, a = d root position major chord
d, f, a = d root position minor chord
...
Hope this helps!

Brandon Keith Biggs

On 2/15/2014 6:55 AM, marissa wrote:
> Hi,
> Does anyone have a chord chart? A basic one that explains the chords, 
> minor and major? Like this:
>
> c chord, c e g.
> g minor chord: g d b
> Wrong notes, I know.
>
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