 The Fingering Forum
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Author: ALLYCAT
Date: 2001-02-20 12:14
Scales I get, they're easy and understandable. It's the chords I don't get. I understand that they're some notes out of a scale played together (or maybe that's not right neither). Could anyone explain them to me as simply as possible? Remember, you're talking to a begginer.
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Author: Bill
Date: 2001-02-20 20:17
A chord is 3 or more simultaneously sounding notes. There are rules for forming chords. For example, a major chord consists of the first, third, and fifth notes of a scale. In the key of C, the scale is C D E F G A B C. So, the C major chord is C E G. You can play C E G, or chord inversions G C E or E C G. The key of G is G A B C D E F# G, so the F major chord is G B D.
A major seventh chord is adds the seventh note of a scale. So C major seventh is C E G B .
Check out the following web page for lots of chords in different keys.
http://www.telacommunications.com/nutshell/music/index.htm
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Author: Dee
Date: 2001-02-22 23:12
To add to Bill's excellent explanation, wind instruments are not designed to play chords. You need more than one instrument and each instrument plays one note of a chord. What wind instruments can do, is play "broken chords" or "arpeggios." This is where the notes that make up a chord are not played simultaneously but one after another. When a clarinettist, for examples, says that he is going to practice chords, he is really talking about practicing arpeggios, i.e. broken chords.
A lot of music is built on arpeggios so that, just like scales, it pays off to practice these so that they can be quickly identified in site reading and so that they come naturally to the fingers.
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Author: cthymius
Date: 2001-02-27 23:25
Chords are based on your scales. Major chords are 1,3 and 5 of the scale. In C, C is,1 D is 2, E is 3, F is 4, G is 5, A is 6, b is 7, and C again is 8. So if you want a C chord you would play CEGC. All Major chords are based on this principle.
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Author: Juliet
Date: 2001-03-15 04:31
I have been taking music theory for two years now. I am taking Jazz Band currently.
A Major Chord, to follow up on the explanation by cthymius is 1,3,5. and minor chord is 1, flat 3, 5. augmented and diminished chords are formed much the same way. augmented being 1, 3, sharp 5. and diminshed being 1, flat 3, flat 5. In most Jazz pieces, you see a lot of diminished 7th chords, but thats when it gets really confusing cuz there are two different types of diminshed 7 chords.
I feel that the best warmup on a woodwind is playing scales, both major and minor, and arpeggios. This makes it a hell of a lot easier to sightread!
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Author: Chris
Date: 2001-04-27 12:04
I am trying to start playing the saxophone again. I bought an alto but used to play the tenor. I live in Ukraine and there are not too many music stores. Any web addresses where I could get a free list of all the scales and some direction. Also anybody know where to find some nice reggae sheet music ie skatelites early wailers or what not
thanks for the advice
Chris
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Author: jenny
Date: 2005-08-17 11:20
i wnt to have a fingering chords in broken chords.........
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