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The Chord Scale
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4-15-2008 12:27 AM
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This is also helpful in putting together simple progressions, or even whole songs.
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/dd7c2473-4f51-45bb-97ad-cb680e7f4d1a/45F94638-D994-462E-89C0-21A0B2880747/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.ibreathemusic.com/print/105" href="http://www.ibreathemusic.com/print/105" style="font-size: 11px;">www.ibreathemusic.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ibreathemusic.com/print/105"><B>Harmonized Major Scale</B></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ibreathemusic.com/print/105"><DIV> Plain C major scale:</DIV> <DIV align="center"><IMG src="http://www.ibreathemusic.com/articles/files/105/chordscale24.gif" /></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ibreathemusic.com/print/105"><DIV> We start out by harmonizing the major scale with thirds that are diatonic to the scale (diatonic means part of the scale). Below I included the resulting interval starting from each scale note:</DIV> <DIV align="center"><IMG src="http://www.ibreathemusic.com/articles/files/105/chordscale25.gif" /></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ibreathemusic.com/print/105"><DIV> If we add another third on top we get all triads within C major:</DIV> <DIV align="center"><IMG src="http://www.ibreathemusic.com/articles/files/105/chordscale26.gif" /></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ibreathemusic.com/print/105"><DIV> By adding another third on top we get all 7th chords within C major:</DIV> <DIV align="center"><IMG src="http://www.ibreathemusic.com/articles/files/105/chordscale27.gif" /></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ibreathemusic.com/print/105"><DIV> I cannot emphasize how important the above really is. 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