Music Theory For Guitarists Part 1: Chords in the Key of C

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[@Shafaq69]

❤ Pls explain modes similarly and show how to play for example all modes of C from 1st position of C or may be the 2nd postion of C Major and also pls explain how to connect major scale across fretboard vertically and what are sacle extensions and what are sacle postions exactly and what are scale extensions

[@michaelmcaleavyguitar]

@@Shafaq69 I will try to explain everything I can as soon as I can.

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[@itsblooberri]

Quick question, around the 4:05 mark how do you know when the chords change from major to minor within a key? I wasn’t quite sure why moving up from C major turned into D minor and then E minor, then F major and so on.

[@michaelmcaleavyguitar]

Yes, I will try explain as much as I can in this comment, I plan on doing a video on this at some point. The major chord, the minor chord, and the diminished chord all have specific formulas. The formula for a major chord is the root note, a major 3rd, and I perfect 5th. The formula for a minor chord is the root note, a minor 3rd and a perfect 5th. The formula for a diminished chord is root note, a minor 3rd and a flattened 5th. So, the C major chord at the beginning is a bit more obvious. Root=C, major 3rd=E and perfect 5th=G. The D chord is not major because if I did the major chord formula from the D note we'd get: Root=D(that's not a smiley face btw ha), Major 3rd=F sharp, and the perfect fifth=A. So it can't be D major because the D major chord has an F sharp, and F sharp is not in the key of C. If I did the minor chord formula we'd get: Root=D, Minor 3rd=F, and perfect 5th=A. These are the notes of a D Minor chord. So, to recap, every type of chord has a formula, and when I fill in the next notes in the scale after the C major chord, we just happen to get a D minor chord. We would also get a D minor chord if I followed the Minor chord formula from a D note. We'd get the notes D, F and A both times. I will be doing a video on this as soon as possible because it can be hard to visualise, but I have to limit the information in my videos to a certain extent because people can be overloaded with too much information, not understand the content, or just lose interest. That's why I didn't go into detail about individual chord formulas. Maybe I'll combine everything into one video in the near future. Hope this helps, thanks.

[@HansZarkovPhD]

The b dim here is completely diffrent than on my chord chart

[@michaelmcaleavyguitar]

@@HansZarkovPhD there are lots of different ways to play that chord

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[@kenxinhxc1635]

drake and dr disrespect favorite chord is Am