Great video! Would you recommend thinking of minor triads as flattening the third or practice thinking of relative minors? Also, would the next step be inversions of those triads?
Hi Nate, thanks for reaching out! I recommend thinking of minor triads as flattening the third (of a Major triad or scale). My general approach is to start with the Major scale as the basis, and then alter each degree (scale note) as needed. Feel free with any questions. I am also available for Skype lessons, and can be reached at stephen@gaucimusic.com. Thanks, and best wishes! Stephen
Hi Chris, that's correct. Major/minor triads are built in thirds. But it's beneficial to practice the chords one after the other in 4ths. In other words; first play a C Major triad, then play an F Major triad, then Bb Major triad, etc.. The order we practice them in is 4ths. Best, Stephen
@@patrickolugbemiro9377 Music moves in the direction of 4ths. For example; a C chord will move up a 4th to an F chord (count up four notes from C. "c, d, e, F"). Although C is the fifth note in an F scale (that's what the "cycle of 5th" is referring to), music does not MOVE in 5ths, (and F does not go to C). Music moves in 4ths, with C going to F. The true cycle is C-F-Bb-Eb-Ab-C# -F# - B-E-A-D -G and you then wind up back at C. If you read that cycle backwards it is "the circle of 5ths". The circle of 5ths is essentially looking "backwards" or looking "through the rear-view mirror". But music moves 'forward" through the cycle of 4ths. Almost always.
@@gaucimusic Exactly! Music moves often in 4ths. Consider a very common ii-v-i chord progression: If you learn the circle of 4ths you know automatically all ii-v-i progression. Take an excerpt of the circle D-G-C and there you have a ii-v-i or start on G, over to C, over to F gives you another ii-v-i.
Thanks for the lesson, sir. Appreciate it :)
Thank you sir.. this is very usefull and clear..
You're very welcome!
Great video! Would you recommend thinking of minor triads as flattening the third or practice thinking of relative minors? Also, would the next step be inversions of those triads?
Hi Nate, thanks for reaching out! I recommend thinking of minor triads as flattening the third (of a Major triad or scale). My general approach is to start with the Major scale as the basis, and then alter each degree (scale note) as needed. Feel free with any questions. I am also available for Skype lessons, and can be reached at stephen@gaucimusic.com. Thanks, and best wishes! Stephen
C - E - G is not coming up in 4ths , it is coming up in 3rds
Hi Chris, that's correct. Major/minor triads are built in thirds. But it's beneficial to practice the chords one after the other in 4ths. In other words; first play a C Major triad, then play an F Major triad, then Bb Major triad, etc.. The order we practice them in is 4ths.
Best,
Stephen
Isn't that in fifths? (Moving around the circle of fifths)
@@patrickolugbemiro9377 Music moves in the direction of 4ths. For example; a C chord will move up a 4th to an F chord (count up four notes from C. "c, d, e, F"). Although C is the fifth note in an F scale (that's what the "cycle of 5th" is referring to), music does not MOVE in 5ths, (and F does not go to C). Music moves in 4ths, with C going to F.
The true cycle is C-F-Bb-Eb-Ab-C# -F# - B-E-A-D -G and you then wind up back at C. If you read that cycle backwards it is "the circle of 5ths".
The circle of 5ths is essentially looking "backwards" or looking "through the rear-view mirror". But music moves 'forward" through the cycle of 4ths. Almost always.
@@patrickolugbemiro9377 Going counter clockwise around the circle is in fourths, and going clockwise would be in fifths.
@@gaucimusic Exactly! Music moves often in 4ths. Consider a very common ii-v-i chord progression:
If you learn the circle of 4ths you know automatically all ii-v-i progression. Take an excerpt of the circle D-G-C and there you have a ii-v-i or start on G, over to C, over to F gives you another ii-v-i.