Subject: G Major as the VII Chord
G Major as the VII Chord
March 10th, 2017 at 8:31 am EDTHey Friend, Woot! Friday!! What's more, I'm leaving early to take my daughter to the airport for her first ever solo vacation. She's heading for Scotland and Ireland, so I'm definitely jealous! (I'll have her turn a bit south from Edinburgh to wave t ...
F Major as the VI Chord
March 9th, 2017 at 8:26 am EDTHey Friend, F major weighs in next as the VI chord in the harmonic progression of the key of A minor. If you recall, F was the IV chord in the key of C. So like all its co-stars in the key of A minor, its position is merely shifted BACK by two spots: ...
E Minor as the Vm Chord
March 8th, 2017 at 8:25 am EDTHey Friend, E minor steps up as the next chord in the key of A minor. The chord is derived from the key of E minor and its resulting scale: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 (8)E F# G A B C D (E) We take the 1 3 5 notes from the E minor scale and that gives us what we ...
D Minor as the IVm Chord
March 7th, 2017 at 8:27 am EDTHey Friend, We're rolling through these chords! D minor is the fourth chord in the key of A minor. I tend to think primarily in major keys, so it's a little odd to be calling the IV chord minor. Of course, it's all relative to the key you're working ...
C Major as the III Chord
March 6th, 2017 at 8:27 am EDTHey Friend, Like we saw in the key of C major, the C major chord follows the B diminished chord in the harmonic progression of A minor. The difference here is that this time around, C major is the III chord. It's still major, but now C is occupying a ...
Breather...
March 5th, 2017 at 8:37 am EDTHey Friend, You're getting a little breather today, at least from me. The renovation work was taking twice as long as I expected yesterday (I shoulda known it would), so I'm behind and need to try and catch up today. We'll get back into the wonderfu ...
Give Your Ears a Taste...
March 4th, 2017 at 9:05 am EDTHey Friend, Morning... I had a few minutes before diving into the weekend of renovation work, so I put some music on - something I haven't listened to before. I happened to get this particular album as a free bonus to something else. I don't even rem ...
The Difference One Note Can Make
March 3rd, 2017 at 8:34 am EDTHey Friend, You received a bunch of exercises yesterday for the B Diminished triad, the second chord in the A minor key. As I've been playing around with all these chords, I get to noticing little things here and there that keep it interesting. For i ...
B Diminished as the II° Chord
March 2nd, 2017 at 8:29 am EDTHey Friend, B diminished is the second naturally occurring chord in the key of A minor. If you remember, the major keys have a diminished chord as their seventh triad, so we saw this in the key of C major (the relative major to the key of A minor). B ...
Songs In A Minor
March 1st, 2017 at 8:30 am EDTHey Friend, If you're like me, before you became aware of things like "keys" and intervals, you didn't give any thought to the mechanics behind music other than the visible stuff like playing the instruments to create sound. You didn't know (or care) ...