HOW to MAKE CHORDS from ANY SCALE | Harmonizing Scales

learning how to make or build chords from any scale is easy and follows a very simple set of instructions now you may already be aware of the chords available in major Key by memorizing the following sequence major minor minor major major minor diminished and aligning this pattern with the notes of the major scale for example the key of C major contains the notes C D E F G A and B so lining this up with the previously mentioned sequence would reveal the chords C Major D Minor E minor F major G major a minor and B diminished this method is easy and quickly reveals the chords available in the key however it does not explain where the sequence came from in the first place if you're striving to be as knowledgeable as possible on your instrument of choice then you should feel the need to dig further than this to reveal the theory behind this allowing you to write chord progressions based on more exotic sounding scales and widen your tonal pallet the most common form of Harmony is tan Harmony which simply means Harmony or chords built from thirds to explain this let's look at the G G Major scale which contains these notes to harmonize this scale in thirds we simply need to play the first note G and then count up three notes in the scale starting from this G note which would reveal a b note from here you could count up another three notes within the scale this time starting from the B note revealing a d note you could also view this as skipping every other note in the scale these three notes G B and D form our very first chord g major you could also use chord formula to help identify this chord type using intervals for example the G note would be the first or root note the b in relation to the G is a third interval and the D is a fifth so 135 which is a simple major Triad if you're new to chord formula then I have a very comprehensive video explaining how to build every chord using chord formula which I will link in the description of this video If you use this same method but starting from the second note in the scale you would end up with three entirely new notes forming the second chord in this scale for example the second note in the G Major scale is an a note counting up three notes in the scale would give us a C note and Counting a further three notes starting from the C note would reveal an E note Al together a c and d this time the a would be considered the first or root note and in relation to this a the C note would be a minor third or flat third interval and the E note would be a fifth giving us one flat 3 five or in other words A Minor triad if you were to use this method on all seven notes of the major scale you would be left with the following seven chords and their interval building blocks which as you can see match the original sequence used at the start of this video now I'm not suggesting that you use this method whenever you wish to know the chords in a particular key there are far quicker ways of doing this such as memorizing the sequence of chords the circle of fifths or many other methods which I've covered in depth in many other videos this video Simply explains where these sequences of chords are born from so that you can better understand the theory behind building chords From Any Given scale so far we have only formed Triads or three note chord voicings from the major scale but we don't have to stop here if we continued to count through the scale in thirds for each chord we could introduce even more notes to each of the chords within the scale adding much more harmonic interest which in turn will of course help avoid the typical Cowboy chords we're all used to hearing for example our first G major Triad was formed using the first third and fifth degrees of the major scale and if we took this one step further by skipping the very next note in the scale we would land on an F note this is also a seventh interval making our new chord Formula 1 3 5 and 7 forming a G major 7 chord adding an extra note to each of the chords in the key would now reveal the seven chords major 7- 7- 7 major 7 dominant 7th minus 7 and a minus 7 flat 5 chord otherwise known as half diminished these chords are all interchangeable with the original basic Triad shapes and will give give your chords a slightly more sophisticated or even slightly Jazzy sound we also don't need to stop here what if we skipped one more note in the scale for each of our chords this would now reveal an a note or ninth interval to our G major 7 chord which would now be named G major 9 repeating this process for the remaining notes in the scale would yield these seven interesting chords again completely interchangeable with any of the individual chords previously harmonized counterparts you could harmonize this scale using the exact same process again now revealing ing these seven chords and even once more to reveal these seven chords now that you understand how to harmonize the major scale you will find that following the same process for any other scale will give you a whole new set of chords if you would like to see this in action for example using the harmonic minor scale then let me know in the comments as usual thanks for watching and I'll see you in the next one

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Length: 4min 53sec (293 seconds)

Published: Thu Feb 22 2024