Chords and Keys
Posted on August 2, 2007
Filed Under Simple Music Theory |
Scales, Chords and Keys, they all work together.
Scales - A major scale is a series of notes that are separated by whole
steps and half steps.
The formula is:1w 2 w 3 h 4 w 5 w 6 w 7 h 8 (w=whole step-two frets; h=half step-one
fret).
Chords - Diatonic Chords (chords using only of the scale) are built by playing musical leap-frog - choose a note, skip a note, choose a note, skip at note. It takes at least three notes to make a chord.Keys - being in a key means using only the notes that come from the scale.When playing the guitar there are two good ways to think of chords: across the neck and up the neck. The across the neck approach means that you use a variety of different chords forms and play with in a five fret area on the neck. As the name implies, the Up the Neck approach allows you to use a couple of different chord forms and simply move them up the neck.
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