And what a melodic minor is (demonstration). But I got to do that later. That is what is going to be on the next lesson. Anyway, in a minor scale, it goes tone, semi tone. Those are the first two. So if we are on C, that pattern takes us tone, semitone, tone, tone and then it goes—yes, that is the natural. I am trying to remember those (demonstration). I know this is a high note. Okay, so this is going to be the minor third here and this is the major third. So this one it appears in a minor and this one appears in a major. So when I say I am playing from C to E, that is a major third. From C to E flat, that is a minor third, okay.
Now, another way we can do this is to just count them. So we can go 1-2-3-4 semitones. So it takes four semitones to get a major third, so 1, like 1-2-3-4. (demonstration). That is a major. So it four semitones. So I am counting note I am playing, I am counting the one after it, so 1-2-3-4. Now if we want to get a minor third, we just count 3, 1-2-3 and have a minor. So the reason I am making such a big deal about this is because all chords are built on majors, major thirds and minor thirds. All you have to do is remember the pattern between them, which is quit easy. All major cords are as follows, it is a major third and a minor third.
So this is a major third and this is a minor third. If you do not believe me count to 1-2-3-4, good, now 1-2-3, so remember 3 was a minor and 4 was a major. So we have a major third and a minor third, so major, minor. Major third, minor third and then we can add the C up here to fill it out and complete it all together (demonstration). Pretty simple right, yup. So that is how you find a major chord on any single key. You just look for (demonstration) major, and then the minor. Now, if you know your scales really well, then you do not even have to look, you just know what is involved in that scale. Because I know in G major, this is a third up from that and then from here to here. I know in B minor, a third up is D and then we just add the G. That is the power of learning the circle of fifths, which I really, really recommend.
Okay, so finishing that, that is the major. Now, the minor is actually quite easy. All we do is we flip. It is kind of like a battery. Let us say this is the positive side and this is the negative side, so it is like major third, minor third. Now, what we are going to do is flip it. So now it is minor and then major instead of major minor. It is really quite simple, so if you have like the positive and then negative under the battery, all you do is flip it around and then you get a minor scale. So, not a minor scale, a minor chord. So, we go from a minor third, so we count three and we then we count four 1-2-3-4.
There, now it is a minor chord (demonstration), pretty cool? I hope so. Okay now, you might notice, what is the difference between a major and a minor? All I am doing is lowering the third. This is called the third and this is the fifth and that is the eight, so 1-3-5. And you get that is 1-2-3-4-5. So I lower the third of the chord down one key, one semitone and here comes the minor. You can do that anyway (demonstration). That is the minor. Okay, so that is how you find a minor chord. Now, the pattern for a dominant seventh, which is something that is always leads back to the tonic which is something I am going to get on to in the later lesson.
I am focusing only on one key, how to play the same chord and all these different chords with just one key to keep it nice and simple. Okay, now with this one it is going to be built like this, it is actually comprised of four (demonstration), basically three intervals instead of the two, because before were just got a major minor or minor major.
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