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Minor chord progressions12/22/2023 ![]() Sometimes substitutions are used and not all chords in a progression are diatonic to a scale. Keep in mind, however, that chord progressions aren’t always straight forward. Now that we’ve looked at the process of building chords that are diatonic to a scale, you can use this as a jumping off point for writing your own chord progressions and studying existing progressions. Writing and understanding chord progressions starts with an understanding of diatonic harmony. You can read more about this in the Relative Minor and Relative Major Scales lesson. In other words, every major scale has a relative minor scale, or scale that contains all the same notes and chords. This is because the major scale and natural minor scale are relative to each other. If you read the lesson on building major scale chords, then you may have noticed that the chords of the minor scale are exactly the same as the major scale, just ordered differently. While we used the G minor scale in this lesson, these chord qualities will apply to all natural minor scales. Let’s now take a look at common chord progressions in the key of A minor natural. *Capital numerals are used to denote major while lowercase is used to denote minor. The following chord chart shows all the triads in A minor as well as four note extended chords. Stacking thirds from the first degree of the G minor scale we get the following triad: G – A – B♭ – C – D – E♭ – F G Minor Scale 1st Degree – G Minor key chord progressions are any chord progressions that come from the minor scale. The G minor scale includes the following notes, as seen on the fretboard diagram below: I have always found these groups of chords interesting as the minors let their notes ring out and the major chords do a great job of complementing the progression. To examine the process of building chords for minor keys, we’re going to use the key of G minor. The fourth chord progression is E minor chord, B major chord, D minor chord, and A major chord. Diminished Triad – a minor triad with a flattened 5th, or two minor 3rd intervals Īs we go through each example below, how these qualities come about will become more clear.Augmented Tria d – a major triad with a raised 5th, or two major 3rd intervals.Minor Triad – a triad with a flattened 3rd (minor 3rd) and perfect 5th, or a minor 3rd + major 3rd interval.Major Triad – a triad with a major 3rd and perfect 5th, or a major 3rd + minor 3rd interval.These stacked thirds determine the quality of the triad: You can also think of it as every other note in a scale, or the root, 3rd, and 5th degrees of a scale. Thirds refers to notes that are a third apart. The basis of chord construction begins with stacking thirds to create triads, the three notes that form the basic of a chord. This is the basis of understanding and creating chord progressions. The point of this process is to establish all the chords which are diatonic to the minor key. In this lesson we’re going to go through the process of building minor scale chords, which follows the same process as the major scale. In a previous lesson, we looked at how to build chords from the major scale, which is an important concept when it comes to understanding diatonic harmony.
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