Category: Music
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Making sense of intervals in music, music modes, and chords
Modes and Chords: A Note-Number Guide A mode tells you which notes are available relative to a starting note, or tonic. A chord selects particular notes from that collection. In the tables below, all numbers are compared with the major scale on the same tonic. For example, ♭3 means “lower the third note of the…
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Chords on the B and high-e strings
Two-note root-and-third voicings in the major keys A through G. × don’t play · ○ open string · ● press at that fret
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Simple Chord Shapes For Guitar
G · B · E STRING CHORDS Movable Three-String Chord Explorer Discover how one chord shape can be moved up the guitar neck to produce every root note in an octave. These shapes use only the G, B, and high E strings. Chord type MinorMajorDiminishedAugmentedSuspended 2ndSuspended 4thMinor 7thDominant 7thMajor 7thMinor 6thMajor 6thPower chord Root note…
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Music Modes
If you stick with just the white keys on a piano (C major), you can create pretty much any sound or emotion you want. The reason this works depends on the note you start with, or perhaps just as importantly, the note you return to for each musical phrase you create. Here are all the…