Lately, we’ve been talking about power chords, tritones, and substitutions.
Today, I want to show you how to use tritones and minor chords to form crazy-sounding dominant ninth chords.
minor triads
What everybody ought to know about ninth chords
The secret to playing minor chords quickly
Minor chords are pretty simple, if you already know your major chords. You just take the 3rd degree of your major chord and lower it a half step. (Half steps are from key to key with no keys in between.) So if the C major chord is C+E+G, first figure out what the third degree [...]
Major Chords vs. Minor Chords
Yesterday, you learned: how to construct the major Interval how to construct the perfect Interval Major Third: Distance between root and (3) degree Perfect Fifth Interval: Distance between root and 5th The Major The (major chord) is created by combining the major third and perfect fifth intervals. For example, in (C major), a major third [...]
