How to Build Major and Minor Chords - Music Theory

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[@stathiszoulakis9599]

I really enjoy your videos and I have learned so much .thank you sir

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A pleasure. Glad they’re helpful

[@blakegilliam8223]

Same for me

[@MusicMattersGB]

That’s kind

[@christinachan6478]

Could you please make a video teaching us how to strength the 4th and 5th fingers and how to use them for playing a chord. Thank you.

[@MusicMattersGB]

Okay

[@Ana_crusis]

This is just for the very beginners in music theory

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Mainly

[@isaacshaw1596]

Could you do how to use parallel keys. Like best chord progressions for using minor four. I am happy writing pieces I am getting one published but incorporating colour like using the parellel minor or variations on the main diatonic key I struggle to incorporate. For example you might decide instead of having a minor in c major you decide to use a major.

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Okay. We could do that.

[@Elephantine999]

Such great videos. Thanks!

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[@jayducharme]

When you go up the C major scale, I've never understood why chords turn minor or diminished. If a major chord is 1-4-7, why wasn't that sequence carried through all the way up the scale? I suddenly realized while watching this that (duh!) the key of C major has no sharps or flats, so you have to progress accordingly.

[@pjr-asian-art-songs]

Hi Jay, It's because in the diatonic major scale (for example C major), there are semitones/half-steps between notes 3-4 and 7-8 (i.e. between E-F and B-C). Taking this into consideration the quality (major/minor/augmented*/diminished) of the chords then have to change accordingly. *applies in the harmonic minor scale, doesn't apply to major scale.

[@MusicMattersGB]

Lots of people don’t realise this until the diatonic chords are all laid out within a key.

[@DavidWoodardMMED]

Gareth, what application do you use to make your keyboard show up in color on your videos? Thanks, Dave

[@MusicMattersGB]

Its called synthesia. You can connect a midi keyboard and it will display the notes. There are of similar programs that do the same thing.

[@DavidWoodardMMED]

@@MusicMattersGB Thanks So Much Gareth, It must be late there? FYI, Your Teaching is Superb:)

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A pleasure, glad it’s useful to you 😀

[@daningram3143]

Very good, thank you!

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[@mponyaamos7303]

i like that , is what i wants

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Excellent

[@MotifMusicStudios]

Terrific resource!

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[@berrieberrie417]

Thank you so much

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[@fazelmorowat851]

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Thank you

[@isaacshaw1596]

The F# above middle C sounds really different to every other key in tone. Or is it just me? I haven't got perfect pitch so if you played a note by itself I wouldn't know inherently the pitch but the F# on your keyboard sounds quite different to me than the other notes. Perfect pitch is an interesting topic however and trying to explain the difference between relative pitch which is something I have learnt versus perfect pitch which you either just have or don't I find people get confused. If you get fluent with relative pitch it can seem very much like you have perfect pitch.

[@MusicMattersGB]

There’s often uncertainty about perfect and relative pitch. One thought is context eg F# following C sounds distinctive because of the tritone relationship.

[@isaacshaw1596]

@@MusicMattersGB Not a half bad video idea to be fair. 🤣I have done a lot of research into it and I am interested in how we find it fascinating without perfect pitch the way they can just hear all the notes but there are people who can't see all colours but we don't get amazed by being able to tell the difference between red and blue but we do when off the cuff someone can name the note straight away after hearing it. People can train their ears so they become quicker with their intervallic relationships. if they know how C sounds they will know what F is. Go up a perfect 4th but they don't have perfect pitch and I suppose in a way the 1 in 1000 people that supposedly do have perfect pitch are really hearing music in full colour.

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😀

[@bossshrek1241]

So this lets you find the chord itself, not the minor or major scale right

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Absolutely

[@LivingEigo]

Thanks!

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[@neuroradguy]

Excellent

[@MusicMattersGB]

Glad it’s helpful