[musictlk] Chord chart
marissa
pianogirlforlife7 at gmail.com
Sun Feb 16 03:18:51 UTC 2014
That is the most confusing email I have ever heard with speech.
lol I am sick of speech and no display. Have to deal with it for
at least two more weeks though. grr
Is there anything on youtube, or any charts, anything like that,
that would help?
----- Original Message -----
From: Kaiti Shelton <crazy4clarinet104 at gmail.com
To: Music Talk Mailing List <musictlk at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Sat, 15 Feb 2014 22:08:22 -0500
Subject: Re: [musictlk] Chord chart
Hi Marissa,
You are right about the C minor chord being C Eb G, but you have
a few
other things a little mixed up. A D major chord would be D F#
A, and
a D minor chord would b D F A. What you were describing with D
F# B
is actually an inverted B minor chord, which in root position
would b
B D F#.
Basically, Brandon was right when he said knowing your chords all
comes down to intervals. In most cases it's just identifying
major
and minor 3rds. There are more complex chords which have 2 major
3rds
on top of each other and 2 minors as well, but for right now just
focus on identifying major and minor chords in root position.
The chromatic scale just goes up every half step, so it would be
written like this: C C# D D# E F F# G G# A A# B C. If you were
going
down it would be written with all flats as: C B Bb A Ab G Gb F E
Eb D
Db C. This is because sharps indicate an upwards motion, and
flats
indicate downwards.
It might be easier if you do some thinking about the chords while
looking at a piano. On the keyboard every single key is a half
step
in relation to other keys. The intervals in root position major
and
minor chords will always be the same, so try moving a major and
minor
chord around on the piano and see how it sounds. For example,
play C
E G which is a C major chord, then move the entire chord up a
whole
step to D F# and A to get a D major chord. F A C will be F
major, G B
D will be G major, and so on. To answer your question about E
major,
that is E G# and B. You'll primarily have your hand in one of
two
positions; with C, F, and G major chords all your fingers will be
on
white keys, with a white key in between each one you are using.
C,
skip D, E, skip F, and G, for example. The other shape will have
your
thumb and ring fingers on white keys, but your index finger
playing a
black key. D, skip E, F# on a black key, skip G, and A, for
example.
The only diatonic chord, or chord which has a root on one of the
white
keys, that you won't be able to use these shapes for is B major,
but
if you want to try it you will have your thumb on B which is
white,
your index finger on D# which is black, and your ring finger or
pinky
on F#. I would recommend primarily sticking to C through A for
now
though.
I hope this helps.
On 2/15/14, marissa <pianogirlforlife7 at gmail.com> wrote:
Not that well. But I think I do have more of an understanding
of
minor and major chords after listening to those things on the
site. But if c e and g is a c major chord, then wouldn't that
make c e-flat g be a c minor chord? Also, if the d f-sharp b is
the d major chord, what about the d f b?
It is confusing when it comes to the e major chord because I'm
th'king it's e g-sharp b, but what about e-;g-b or the e f-sharp
b.
----- Original Message -----
From: Brandon Keith Biggs <brandonkeithbiggs at gmail.com
To: Music Talk Mailing List <musictlk at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Sat, 15 Feb 2014 18:17:50 -0800
Subject: Re: [musictlk] Chord chart
Hello,
in Braille the number sign is just a number sign in computer
Braille.
The # is the sharp and the b is the flat.
d, f#, a
d natural, f sharp, a natural.
I probably should have asked if you know the chromatic scale?
thanks,
Brandon Keith Biggs
On 2/15/2014 10:43 AM, marissa wrote:
I have no clue how to write that. But, when you say like an eb
or fb
or something like that, is the b the flat or the sharp?
----- Original Message -----
From: Brandon Keith Biggs <brandonkeithbiggs at gmail.com
To: Music Talk Mailing List <musictlk at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Sat, 15 Feb 2014 10:36:31 -0800
Subject: Re: [musictlk] Chord chart
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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