Major Key Patters: Bass Chord Arpeggios

Video Transcript

"OK, well, we've just learned major, minor and diminished triads and arpeggios and the differences between the three. But, there has to be some kind of order to all this, and there is in Western music. Really it's based on what we had the whole step half step pattern. If we apply that now to this pattern, separating the notes say D, C D E F G A B and then C again. We had whole step, whole step, half step, whole step, whole step, whole step, half step. But we also have chords that each of these would represent in the major scale of the Western music. So, our first score would be a one chord, a major chord. A major triad would represent this, C major. OK? Our second chord would be a minor, D minor, triad. Then we have another minor triad, E minor. We have an F major now, triad, a half step away. We'd have G major, a whole step. We have A minor. Now we hit the twelfth fret. Let's avoid going past there for now and go back to open A here. It's still the minor shape though, remember relative of C major. Then we have the B diminished triad. Then C major. So, really our pattern here is major, minor, minor, major, major, minor, diminished. When we do a 7th chord we'll talk about what dominant means. But just for now it's just a major triad or if you add the octave the arpeggio. So, try this in another key. You have F sharp, G sharp, A sharp, B, C sharp, D sharp, E sharp, F sharp. Well, really quickly, applying this we have major, minor, minor, major, major, minor. And we haven't hit the twelfth fret or the bass yet so. Now, for the F or for the E sharp diminished and then F sharp major. So get used to do this. Try a few different keys with this progression."