Here’s how it works. Once you know how to construct major and minor scales on the piano, you can take the notes within them and start stacking them up together to play chords. While it’s possible to ...

There are a number of different minor scales available, suiting different situations and chord progressions. Two of the most common used by guitarists are the minor pentatonic (1-b3-4-5-b7) and ...

The 4th in this case is G, the 4th of the D major scale. The G replaces the 3rd (F#), meaning sus chords are neither major ...

This has a standard root, major 3rd and minor 7th intervallic construction. In addition to these three standard dom7 chord tones, we can add altered 9th and 5th degree scale tones, namely the b9, #9, ...

The characteristics of these minor scales mean that triads based on these degrees of the scale make different kinds of chords. These chromatic alterations have been the basis of a whole range of ...

With the intermediate status, one has learned some basic chords and strum patterns so those initial thrills are gone, and now ...

Chord I is built upon the first note of an eight note scale, and chord V upon the fifth ... you’ll see that every major chord has a minor reflection, (shown in the inner circle) which contains all the ...

The fifth': The melody moves up one note to the fifth chord of the scale, the dominant (V) of G major. –'The minor fall': Again, the melody moves up one note here to the sixth chord, the submediant ...