^Twisha, you seem to have studied a lot since we talked about music theory last time (long ago I think).
By the way (@the people who want to learn this), memorising the intervals (Wikipedia) takes not much time and is important to understand the big picture.
I'll take Twisha's stuff to step two:
Building Chords over the major scale she presented:
- Take the C-maj scale
C - D - E - F - G - A - B
- Now, stack one third over each root note and another one on top of this to get triad chords:
I.
C/E/G
II.
D/F/A
III.
E/G/B
IV.
F/A/C
V.
G/B/D
VI.
A/C/E
VII.
B/D/F
=> You now have the basic triad chords on every step in the key of C-major. This means that they consist ONLY of notes of the C-Major scale.
However, how to you know if these chords are major or minor chords (apart from hearing)?
- Look at the structure:
Major chords work like this:
Root note/major third (containing 4 halftone steps)/minor third (containing 3 halftone steps)
Minor chords work like this:
Root note/minor third/major third
...so the order of the thirds in major and minor chords are inverted, making it easy to memorise.
- Now check in which order the thirds are placed in our triad chords in the key of C-Major:
I. C/E/G
root/major 3rd/minor third => The chord is
C-Major
II. D/F/A
root/minor 3rd/major 3rd => The chord is
D-Minor
III.
E-minor
IV.
F-major
V.
G-major
VI.
A-minor
VII.
B/D/F
root/minor 3rd/minor 3rd WTF, two minor thirds?? => The chord is B diminished
Profit 1:
You now have seven chords in the key of C-Maj consisting of notes of the C-Major scale. The point is: You can write out a rhythm with these chords and play a solo with the c-major scale over it without sounding bad, it will fit (more or less).
Profit 2:
Memorise on what step a major or a minor chord lies:
I. major
II. minor
III. minor
IV. major
V. major
VI. minor
VII. dim.
It stays the same for every major key.
Example for G-Major:
G-A-B-C-D-E-F#
I. G-major
II. A-minor
III. B-minor
IV. C-major
V. D-major
VI. E-minor
VII. F#-dim.
....I bet noone will read all this
