2009年5月20日星期三

Key chord

Last weekend I told Angel what chords should belong to a key in generally case. She asked me why. That is really a good question. I just listened from jazz guitar teacher but never think the reason behind. I pick up my pencil and draw out their relationship. Finally got the reason (actually the guitar teacher should explained in class, just I forget).

Take C key as example, the following chords are basically match with it.

Cmaj7 Dm7 Em7 Fmaj7 Gm7 Am7 Bm7b5

Why? Let list out the note in each chord.

Cmaj7Dm7Em7Fmaj7Gm7Am7Bm7b5
CDEFGAB
EFGABCD
GABCDEF
BCDEFGA

This seems not much special. However, you may notice that all elements in these 7 chords are belonging to C major scale. It would be more obvious if showing their so-fa name in C key.

Cmaj7Dm7Em7Fmaj7Gm7Am7Bm7b5
DoReMiFaSoLiTi
MiFaSoLiTiDoRe
SoLiTiDoReMiFa
TiDoReMiFaSoLi

So, that's means?

All these 7 chords are made by C major scale, so their sound would be match with a song in C key. However, this is just generally correct. In some cases a half-step tone would make the song much more interesting.

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