(Piano playing)
Hello and welcome to key lesson number 25.
Today, I am going to be talking about chords. How to find them on specific key like if you are playing on let us say the key you are playing is C key. So by the end of this one, you should be able to play the C Major (Demonstration), C minor (Demonstration), C dominant 7th (Demonstration) and C domain of 7th (Demonstration). And then I am also going to talk about minor 3rds, major 3rds and also how to find the key of a piece by looking at the song like the sheet music.
Okay so, let us start with what we need to look at first here is the difference between the minor 3rd and the major 3rd. So let us talk about the major 3rd. So, say we have a C Major scale here (Demonstration). What we are going to go is if you remember from previous lessons, I will just do a quick review.
From here to here is a second, that is 1, 2, that is a second (Demonstration). From here to here is a third (Demonstration), that is the fourth (Demonstration), that’s a fifth (Demonstration), that is the sixth (Demonstration), that’s the seventh (Demonstration), that’s an eighth (Demonstration) or a perfect octave. So, from here to here is a third (Demonstration), but that is actually is just the general term. It is kind of like giving you—if someone told you that they live in a certain city but not telling you what street it was on or say they told you, “Hey, I live on this street” but they did not give you the address that is basically about how precise it is. So, what we want to do is we need to distinguish which one is 3rd or major 3rd and a minor 3rd.
So, you are probably wondering how am I going to be able to distinguish the difference? So, what we are going to do is it is actually quite simple. A Major 3rd is the third that occurs in a major scale. So, C Major (Demonstration)—all we do is we count the third note. 1, 2, 3 (Demonstration). So that is a major third.
Now, if we are into a different key like D Major. So, we got C and F sharp as a key or raise notes (Demonstration). So the third note is the F sharp (Demonstration) and this one, 1, 2 (Demonstration) that is a major 3rd. So, this is the major 3rd (Demonstration) and this is a major 3rd (Demonstration).
Now, you are probably wondering, “But how do I know what are the different scales are?” Good question. You have to follow the major scale pattern which I also outlined before which is tone, tone, semitone, tone, tone, tone, semitone.
Now, what I really recommend is that you get to know your circle of fifth extremely, extremely well which I also showed at an earlier lesson.
So, memorize your whole circle of fifths and I want you to go to the piano and actually learn every single scale so that you know them so well on the piano that you can picture in your head and you can just close your eyes picture the piano keyboard in your head and you can kind of like press down all the keys in your mind of which keys belong to that scale. So, you should know every scale and believe me that will help you so much in your piano playing. It will all just be like I do not know it is the biggest tool that you can ever have for learning about all the technical things and like learning stuff that will help you a lot.
I apologize for not making too much sound. My surgery is actually in the day after the tomorrow and that is pretty much night time. So, it is basically a day away, I have been frazzled and nervous. Anyway, okay so getting back on topic. We’re getting a major 3rd occurs in a major scale. So, guess what? A minor 3rd occurs on a minor scale. Now, in A minor (Demonstration), the pattern for this was tone (Demonstration), semitone (Demonstration), tone (Demonstration), tone (Demonstration), tone (Demonstration), tone (Demonstration), semitone (Demonstration). Alright so, did I just pass that out? Sorry I am not thinking. Tone (Demonstration), semitone (Demonstration), tone (Demonstration), tone (Demonstration), semitone (Demonstration), tone (Demonstration), tone (Demonstration).
Now, I realized that my early video when I was covering minor scales I kind of confused some people with when I went to here on the harmonic scale. So, I think my lesson number 26 when I released that later, I am going to focus on clearing up what are the difference between a natural harmonic is (Demonstration), what are minor harmonics (Demonstration) and what are melodic minor is (Demonstration).
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