Advanced Music Theory
by Carlos Lichman
Hi people!!!
I’ll begin my lessons by teaching you some basic
music theory. Why? You can study scales, fast picking and many
other techniques but you need to know what you are doing in order to apply
these skills in a musical way!
Well......do you know which mode to play over a chord progression? If
not, than studying a little theory can help. Many
people ask me “playing in dorian tonality...what does it mean?”
So...take a look here and
find the answers.
Tonic major chords, tonic minor,
supertonic major, and supertonic minor, dominant and fully diminished. Each one
of these has several possibilities for scales to go with them. The first five
groups mentioned can be said to come from a key, while the last (fully
diminished) has no allegiance to any key. So I’ll refer to the first five as
chord families and the last as just a chord group.
I took the supertonic major family
because of this simplicity. The word TONIC as used here refers to the first
degree of the major or minor scale and supertonic refers to the second.
The supertonic major chord family
has the following interval structure:
Major 13th, Perfect 11th,
Major 9th, Minor 7th, Perfect 5th, Minor 3rd,
Root
These notes down on octave:
Root, Major 2nd, Minor 3rd,
Perfect 4th, Perfect 5th, Major 6th, Minor 7th,
Root
I mentioned to pick this family for
its simplicity. For 3 reasons:
1) There are no alterations
2) All notes com from the key
3) There are no 4ths nor added 6ths, the chord is just straight up root, 3,
5, 7, 9, 11 and 13.
Here you can do these exercises to
identify the major key and the name of the chord and the key.
1- Spell and identify the major key
Cm13 Dbm11 G-9 Fmi7
Abm11
2- Identify the name of the chord and the key:
B
D F# A C# A
C E G B D F# Bb
Db F Ab C Eb G
B
D F# A C# E
G B D F# A C#
People I hope to help you about your
guitar lessons and to improve your music theory. If you have any question send
me an e-mail:
Contact:
Carlos Lichman
e-mail: escese@bol.com.br
Site: www.lichman.hpg.com.br