Saturday, October 2, 2010

General Chord Theory part one! Intervals

Since the best way to play your own sweeps is to know how to construct their chord forms, and work them into progressions, I will deviate from general sweep picking form for now and delve a bit further into chord theory!

So now that you have a C major scale (CDEFGAB) all set up using the whole step formula from last time, now you can make chords off it using the notes found in the scale.  Remember those interval thingys I brought up briefly? Well now they have a purpose. Certain intervals sound happy, some sound sad, its just how music works.  Since there are seven notes in the C major scale, lets assign them number values, just to make this simple, without dragging in "major thirds, perfect fifths" and stuff.  So now we can think of the major scales INTERVALS as being 1-2-3-4-5-6-7, one being the root and so forth.  Now to construct chords, we will take certain combination's of intervals that sound good together, and have some easy formulas to memorize so you can make them on the fly!

 But not right now lol.  Maybe later, or definitely tomorrow.  And, as you know the drill, comment to rage, praise, or give suggestions on where you want the lessons to go next.  And Allen, circle of fifths will be soon, first I have to build up the general knowlege!


Cordially Yours,

Velociplum

12 comments:

  1. you seem to know a lot of music theory :O are you a teacher?

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  2. Cool man, thanks for listening and reading the comments! I really enjoy this, as I've been playing guitar and violin for a while now, but I know only a little of theory. I would also like to get into some composition.

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  3. yea your knowledge is pretty extensive...I saw a flier for a lesson in guitar..haha was it yours :P ?

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  4. hey, this is one of my more favorite posts from you :)

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  5. Are you a music teacher or what? You're awesome!

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  6. looking forward to more chord theory, i need to learn more!

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  7. Great knowladge, not really that much more you need to pick up

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  8. Interesting read there, helps with my learning a little :3

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  9. Finally someone who can 'explain' music, nice!

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  10. I appreciate you visiting my blog and providing input on my most recent post.

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  11. Next up... tritones! Or should be... Or perhaps maybe your take on transposition and its relevance or importance today with the whole fact that one can easily import something in Sibelius or Finale now and transpose it in a single click. Good stuff... I'll definitely be keeping up. I'm a murzician tooooo 8D ~~

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