After last week’s e-mail, I received the most replies ever.
Here’s another one I think will really help you (VERY IMPORTANT
STRATEGIES BELOW).It’s from a gentleman named Mark.

***Comment From Mark H.***

Hi Jermaine,

Last week’s e-mail was totally awesome! This number system
stuff is quite new to me but you’ve totally made it plain. You
certainly have a knack for breaking stuff down and I want to
thank you for taking the time to do this.

On one of your blog posts, you talked about primary and
secondary chords. You also talked about how each tone of the
scale has its own chord that is usually played.

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Here is a question that came in from Chris Myhre:

Flat 9, flat 5, flat 7th… this stuff is confusing — and for that matter the ADD 9, ADD 5, ADD 6, and the #9, #5 as well. I guess I should also throw in the half-diminished chords, whatever those are. I’m still trying to figure it out. It all sounds beautiful but it seems that a #9 would be a minor note and a flat 7th is still just a regular 7th. It’s hard to understand why the notation has to be so complicated. Maybe things will become more apparent as I go along and learn more.

Anyway, I hope to understand more of this as I go along and I appreciate what you have done. God bless,

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Hi Chris,

Thanks for your question…

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Question posted to blogquestion@hearandplay.com by Deborah Teel:

“Thank you Jermaine. Of course if you can answer the question, and I’m sure you can, please feel free. The question is “how do I identify the chord progression in any song?” I learned how to play “the organ” very differently, but hearandplay has helped me tremendously. The number system has just opened a whole new…” [click title to read more]

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By now, you should know your major scales. If you don’t, there’s plenty of lessons on here to get you up to speed. But that’s not what I want to talk about today.

I want to talk about an entirely different way to look at scales. A way that will help you to learn and understand chord progressions a lot faster! (Isn’t that what we all want? Chord progressions create SONGS!).

Don’t get me wrong… scales are great. I’m a great advocate of learning scales in the beginning. I just don’t like when people get wrapped up into playing them just to “warm up” (and stuff like that). I think they are much more important than that…

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I don’t normally do this but I’ve found an awesome explanation of primary chords and I’d like to share it with you.

You can find it by clicking here.

If you’ve ever wondered why they’re called “primary chords” and what makes them so special, this article will definitely shed some light on the subject.

Until next time —

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As you may know from past lessons, tertian chords are built on thirds.

This is majority of the chords you’ll play since almost every common chord (like major, minor, dominant, diminished, augmented, and even most altered chords) are built on thirds.

In this post, I wanted to provide a quick refresher on some of the most common tertian chords.

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Here’s a topic I’ve never talked about before. And it’s powerful.

It’s the idea of “borrowing” chords. But in order to understand it, let me teach you what the term “parallel key” means…

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I don’t normally do this but I’ve found an awesome explanation of primary chords and I’d like to share it with you.

You can find it by clicking here.

If you’ve ever wondered why they’re called “primary chords” and what makes them so special, this article will definitely shed some light on the subject.

Until next time —

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