Piano and Keyboard All-in-One For Dummies by Holly Day

Author:Holly Day [Day, Holly, Kovarsky, Jerry, Neely, Blake, Pearl, David and Pilhofer, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781118837566
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2014-04-04T23:52:19+00:00

You build new chords by altering this C triad in any of the following ways:

Raising or lowering notes of the triad by a half step or whole-step

Adding notes to the triad

Both raising or lowering notes and adding notes

For example, Figure 6-2 shows you four different ways to change the C triad and make four new chords. Play each of these chords to hear how they sound. The note intervals are marked in each chord.

Figure 6-2: Making new chords from the C triad.

Starting Out with Major Chords

Major chords are the most frequently used, most familiar, and easiest triads to play. It’s a good bet that most folk and popular songs you know have one or two major chords.

You make major chords with the notes and intervals of a major scale. (You may remember scales from Book III Chapter 2.) You build a major chord by starting out with a root note and then adding other notes from the desired chord’s scale. For example, suppose you want to build a G major chord. Play the root note G and add the third and fifth notes (or third and fifth intervals) from the G major scale on top of the root note.

Major chords, such as the four in Figure 6-3, are so common that musicians treat them as the norm. These chords are named by just the root, and musicians rarely say “major.” Instead, they just say the name of the chord and use a chord symbol written above the staff to indicate the name of the chord.

Figure 6-3: Major chords.

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