Because before we are just going major, minor or minor, major. Now, with this one it’s a four in note chords so it has (Demonstration) four different notes. So these three different intervals are this one (Demonstration), this one (Demonstration) and that one (Demonstration). So as you have already pointer out before this is a major third, (Demonstration) this is a minor third. One, two, three (Demonstration), now let us count this one out. One, two three (Demonstration) so this is a minor third as well. A dominant seventh chord is comprised of major third, minor third, minor third so it is major minor, minor. Just keep remembering that it is major, minor, minor (Demonstration).
So that is the dominant seventh. Now the last one is called the diminished seventh. Think of diminished as small and think of minor as a smaller chord because would you say this is smaller? This is smaller than this one isn’t it? (Demonstration). This is major and then we go to minor it gets a little bit smaller, it get smaller and that is like diminished.
If we are actually going to play here and we play to E double flat this are actually called the diminished third but that does not happen very often I am not going to focus on that. So minor third (Demonstration) and diminish chords because they are diminished think of them all as small. So it just minor (Demonstration), minor (Demonstration), minor (Demonstration). So they are all going to be minor thirds (Demonstration). Okay? Diminished chords actually sound quite spooky and you can actually hear good example of diminished chords in the Moonlight Sonata first movement by Beethoven.
All you need to do is you go into the Moonlight Sonata and you listen to it and about halfway through you should hear some part that goes like (Demonstration). Anyway, I cannot really remember it too well I haven’t played it in about seven years or something. But anyway, so the part where all going crazy and it sounds kind of creepy and it is all broken up, all those are diminished chords just broken up to alter note patterns. So it is like taping it and going (Demonstration) and then that is all he is doing. It is really quite simple but people really “Oh! It sounds so cool” so you can get some pretty cool effects from diminished chords.
So all you have to do is remember it is just minor third (Demonstration), minor third (Demonstration), minor third (Demonstration). All right, so kind of whisk through all these stuff if I am going too quickly just go back and watch it again. The reason I am going quickly is because I do not have a lot of time at the moment. I am really busy trying to get everything organize, I have three exams coming up at the end of the month plus my surgery so I am going out of it and then going to be racing to get study and done and everything. The only reason why I am actually doing this at the moment is because I promised one last video before I would get my surgery done.
But do not worry, once I am back after the Christmas break I will be making more videos again. You can expect another 25 lessons from me hopefully. I am going to keep on going, okay so I have this piece of here. Now this is—my hand is hurting. We have not turned in E flat Major. Now how do we know it is an E flat major? Okay, now if you know your circle of fifths which I hope you do, you will notice that the first way to find out what key or pieces on is looking at this, this is called the key signature. This will give you a tally tale sign of down to which key it could be by only two keys. It can only be either the major version or the minor version. So you look at the key signature it has three flat. So, when I want to find is I am looking at flat and I want to know which major key that is I just count backwards, that is an E flat so that is E flat Major. Now if this was only two flats, I will count back and it is the B flat Major. Just like that and the more flat you go you just cancel last one and go back one.
Okay and then you just kind of look at in whatever. Okay so it could be either be E flat Major or it is relative minor. So we count back three semi-tones from E flat one, two, and three (Demonstration) that means it is C minor is the relative minor.
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