Major Scales to Formulate a Song: Intermediate Music Theory

Video Transcript

" Hi! I’m Mark Black and welcome to expertvillage.com. We’re going to talk about intermediate theory concepts. Now, what was the point of all this? The point of all this is that the way the that you hear songs is not in the key that you heard me play and sing Tequila Sunrise in 3 keys. They all sounded like Tequila Sunrise, and why? It’s because we followed the same formula here of these cords. So this sequence is where you’re going to get the fundamental chords that your write your songs. If you have the notes of the major scales, of any major scale, you start playing a song in the key of A and you know the notes. This is an example, it’s not the specific. You know the notes and you start playing in A chord. Well, the notes in the A scale are A, B, C sharp, D, E, F sharp, and G sharp. So all you have to do for basic song writing in the beginning is to build a chord. A major chord on the 1, A major, a minor chord on the 2, a minor chord on the 3, C sharp minor, a major chord on the 5, a minor chord on the 6. And like I said, the 7 is diminished, we don’t use it as much, but let me just show you how that would work. "