If you’re writing music in the major scale here are how the chords are structured throughout the scale: It may sound confusing but it’ll become clear in a second. You’re going to use both major and minor chords together, depending on which note in the scale you’re building a chord off of. You see, if you’re playing a song in the major scale you’re not ONLY going to use major chords to create patterns. And there’s even a diminished chord in there too. If the roman numeral is in small letters, you’ll use a MINOR chord. The CAPITALIZED Roman Numerals in the chart above mean that note will be a MAJOR chord. It’s called diatonic harmony.Īnd it basically means the relationship between different chords within a scale. We’re going to think in terms of CHORDS.īut before we go further, here’s something you need to know. If you remember, we basically said that this is the direction music flows. In the last lesson we learned about the Nashville Number System of applying numerals to each note in a musical scale.
#HOW TO BUILD CHORD PROGRESSIONS IN AMPLE SOUND GUITAR HOW TO#
You basically use your combined knowledge of musical scales and how to build chords. So how do you know which chord to go to next to make it sound good?
And chord progressions are the building blocks of songs. Scales and chords are the building blocks of chord progressions. So in music, the notes are the building blocks of scales and chords. The music you love is based on chord progressions – the harmonic movement from one musical chord to another to form a pattern with a certain emotional push and pull, and of course a fully completed song. Chords Make Patterns, Patterns Make Songs You also know about scales and chords and have even learned about numbering your music notes.Ĭhords are extremely important whether you’re making beats, writing songs, learning piano or figuring out the guitar.īut there’s one more thing you’re going to want to understand and that’s chord progressions. So, if you’ve been following along in this series you know the basics about how time and rhythm work.
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