The Complete Idiot''s Guide to Music Theory

Chapter 9:Chords 117 chord is frequently used to set up the tension leading back to the tonic chord; when you add a seventh to t ...

118 Par t 3:Tunes For example, a C minor 7 chord includes the notes C, E
, G, and B
. Here’s a quick look at how to build minor ...

Chapter 9:Chords Other Extensions While the seventh chord is almost as common as an unadorned triad, other chord extensions are ...

120 Par t 3:Tunes Seventh, ninth, and eleventh chords see frequent use in modern jazz music, which often employs sophisticated h ...

Chapter 9:Chords 121 Another example: Let’s say you have a C minor chord and want to add the ninth but without adding the sevent ...

122 Par t 3:Tunes The resolution from the perfect fourth to the major third is just a half-step movement, but that little half s ...

Chapter 9:Chords If you’re working with extended chords, there are more than two possible inver- sions. For example, the third i ...

Par t 3:Tunes Changing chords in your music. 124 If you’re writing a part for guitar, or for a rhythm section (bass, piano, and ...

Chapter 9:Chords The Complete Idiot’s Chord Reference If you flip back to Appendix B of this book, you’ll find “The Complete Idi ...

Par t 3:Tunes Exercise 9-3 Write the following major chords on the staff. 126 Exercise 9-4 Write the following minor chords on t ...

10 Chord Progressions In This Chapter ◆Understanding scale-based chords ◆Learning the rules of chord leading ◆Figuring out how t ...

128 Par t 3:Tunes Let’s use the key of C as an example, because it’s made up of only the white keys on a piano. When you play a ...

Chapter 10:Chord Progressions 129 Key Signature Chords D
D E
E F F G
G A
A B
continues ...

Par t 3:Tunes Key Signature Chords B ***INSERT FIGURE 10FIG14 C
***INSERT FIGURE 10FIG15 Creating a Progression Let’s see how y ...

Chapter 10:Chord Progressions 131 If you’re playing in a minor key, you want to end up on the home of that key— which is the vi ...

132 Par t 3:Tunes Let’s put together some of these combinations. We’ll start, of course, with the I chord. Because I leads to an ...

Chapter 10:Chord Progressions 133 and vii°. The obvious choice is the V chord, so that’s what we’ll use. Now we have to pick a c ...

134 Par t 3:Tunes This type of ending progression is called an imperfect cadence,and you can get to the V chord any number of wa ...

Chapter 10:Chord Progressions Unlike the I-IV progression, this one has a bit more finality, thanks to the V-I relationship. But ...

136 Par t 3:Tunes I-ii-IV-V This progression has a constant upward movement, resolved with a perfect cadence on the repeat back ...