"Triads are in fact the DNA and the building blocks of chords."
"Every other chord is a derivative of the primary chords. So, if you can play the primary chords, you can play any song."
"A chord is three or more notes played together to create a sense of Harmony."
"It feels joyous, bright, hopeful. Major chords tend to feel more consonant, more positive, a little more comfortable."
"Chords and scales are basically the same thing. You have to know the function of the chord to know what scale to play over it."
"Chords do most of the work of setting the emotion in the song."
"Understanding inversions is important for playing songs correctly."
"There's something really sweet about some of the chord progressions going on."
"The chords that we use in tonal harmony are mostly tertian, built of thirds."
"Chords are coordinates, they send you to a place."
"Identifying where the one is in a song is very valuable when working out chords by ear."
"Instead of worrying about all the hundreds and thousands of different chords out there, we narrowed it down to the exact seven that are the right chords in the key of C."
"It's always the same underlying principles and it doesn't even matter what genre you want to play. Those four chords are a huge gigantic part of most of the music you're going to come across."
"These intervals are known as a major third and a minor third, and that's where these chords get their names."
"Every suspended two chord is also a suspended IV chord by another name."
"I love when musicians play different chords, and there's this lush, beautiful, crunchy thing that happens."
"I love chord diagrams like this. I live by chord diagrams. This is how you really can learn."
"Changing chords is one of the most powerful tools in your toolbox...one of the tools that we can use to change the chords is to add extensions and tensions, which is really a way to add different colors to basic chord types."
"All of those chords we looked at, the 10 triads more or less fall into what we call tertiary harmony, harmony built from thirds."
"Minor seventh chords are like very chilled out, they're very relaxed versions of minor chords."
"If you know your diatonic formula one two three four five six seven, you can replace the two the 3 and the 6 with minor 7th chords and you're golden."
"So now you're starting to open up your fretboard. And a chord is not just a shape that mysteriously has that name. You don't even know why. You know that major chord is 135, and on the guitar, there's really two main voicings for these chords."
"The easiest way to think about nine chords is to find the root note, go back to one note in the scale, and that's the appropriate seven for that chord in that key."
"...and then the same would go for finding the chords to any other keys so for example the key of G major we would have the notes g a b c d e f sharp and then we can number those and add our major minor formula to those as well."
"It's not just for root notes for chords, it's for different intervals, it's for different notes as well."
"...the basis of all possible chords are Triads and a Triad is just a three note chord."
"These chords are, like I said, common building blocks, which were used to create music long before Let's Get It On, and it will be used to create music long after we are all gone."
"Rule number one: know your diatonic seventh chords."
"The chords we get there are made of the notes of C major."
"To be in C major means that essentially all the chords... are going to be that of the harmonization of C major."
"This acts as a great visual aid to figure out what chords belong to a key and their relationship to each other."
"These basic chords are called triads because they've got three notes in. And just like the note names, it's really, really worth learning to get these off by heart because you're going to be using them all the time in songs."
"So just to kind of recap that for you guys, basically we have our easy version of the E-shaped bar chords which looks like this for a major chord and this for a minor chord."
"We want to substitute some of these harder bar chords for something that's a little bit easier to play. That way we can still play songs that might have these chords in them and not have a terrible, horrible hand cramp."
"...but what's interesting about the music is it moves so quickly through the... chords that the other notes in the scale are going to sound good against the chords that are coming as well."
"Don't just learn random chords. Learn chord families, chord groups, positions."
"The circle of fifths is behind the scenes, what's informing why these various chords sound good together."
"The melodic minor scale has its own set of diatonic chords, offering different chord options compared to the natural and harmonic minor scales."
"The intro chords are c sharp major seven and then a d minor seven and then b flat seven."
"But the choices of chords that he goes to because he's using some Barre chords here."
"...I just always want the listener to kind of be able to hear the chords."
"If you're in the key of G, A, C, anything you want, the 1, 4, 5 chords in that key are going to be major, the 2, 3, and 6 chords in that key are going to be minor."
"So I promised you I was going to show you how you could group these chords to play thousands of songs or even write your own."
"These chords are only made up of these notes."
"...just those four chords you can literally play thousands of songs."
"This one is all about that third. We've been ignoring the third of the chords in pretty much every arp pattern that we've looked at thus far. This is all about the third."
"Power chords are not major chords or minor chords, but they could be either depending on how you treat them. They're very transformative like that."
"Harmony is multiple multiple notes at the same time, i.e chords."
"When you want to extend your chords, you need to know what notes you are allowed to put in them to sound cool."
"Now, you might see other chords in the song as well. Songs can have any chords they want in them, not just the diatonic chords, but there's a good chance they will have a lot of these diatonic chords in them."
"It's so cool that each string is a different note and when you play them together it's called a chord."
"You can use any voicing of those chords that you know. So like I said, just try them all out like that and then start trying to make some music with it."
"So here's our C major Triad our C major chord and we add the sixth scale degree that's a C major sixth chord."
"These are the six chords so this is our first new chord from adding notes to our standard basic chords adding the sixth scale degree to major and minor Triads to create six chords and these are the symbols for the six chords if it just."
"When a composer adds nine to a chord, they'll write add 9 after the chord."
"Composers will use these slash chords if they want to emphasize the bass notes and create a melodic line in the bass."
"Now if you ever see the symbol, you know what it means: you're just stacking two chords on top of each other."
"Chords are made up of many intervallic relationships."
"...we're picking G and D, and of course I'm also going to play the actual note of the key that we're in. So let's see what we can come up with."
"You don't have to memorize tons of advanced chords...you can just kind of find them as you go along."
"...as long as you know the key of the song... you don't have to worry about what the chords are you can just play in the key."
"Those are the four essential chords you need to know to play literally thousands of popular songs on the guitar."
"The cage system is just like, 'Okay, here's an E major chord in the G shape. Got it? Now, do what you want with it.'"
"That's what the CAGED system allows you to do - play an E chord here, play an E chord up here, play an E chord using this shape."
"So this is an E major chord right here."
"That's what the CAGED system is for - understanding chord shapes."
"This chord progression, these four chords, have been used again and again in so many really famous and popular songs."
"We have these beautiful chords just right under our fingers, all ready to go."
"Elton tends to add these suspended chords to his playing in a very ad hoc way."
"Learning how to play chords on the guitar in general is already difficult enough. It can be painful, you're learning how to put your hand in all sorts of weird shapes and press down on strings, and the whole thing can be really awkward, especially when you're starting."
"With just these four chords, you'll be able to play thousands of songs."
"Over the four chord D7, it's a D dominant seventh arpeggio. And over the five chord E7, it's an E dominant seventh arpeggio."
"It's just a way of visualizing chords."
"Minor 11th chords are a little more versatile than their major 11th chord cousins."
"Any of the chords you see are just, you know, roots, fifths, thirds, flat thirds, flat fifths, whatever they are, but they're all in relation to that root note."
"We're going to use these chords as the sound."
"When people talk about chords, they're talking about a type of chord, a triad, and it's called a triad because it's made up of three notes."
"Seventh chords are just stacks of thirds. What do I mean by that exactly? I'm saying from C to E we have a third, from E to G we have a third, and from G to B we have a third. So there's actually three different types of thirds in this chord."
"Major Seventh chords are beautiful sounding chords."
"A perfect fifth is a very neutral, nice sounding interval used a lot in a lot of chords."
"For every major key, there's a pattern to it: the first chord is always major, second and third chord always minor, fourth and fifth chord always major, sixth chord minor, seventh chord always diminished."
"Primary chords are the most common chords you're going to find in music."
"The definition of an E minor chord is not a shape that you play on the guitar but it's the notes that the chord is made of."
"Every single chord inside the key of C major is only going to be using groups of these seven notes."
"The white key major chords, which are C major, F major, and G major, are really easy to play."
"The great thing about these is although we have a combination of major and minor chords, the actual physical shape just of the white keys is the same."
"These chord positions are such a staple fundamental thing that we use in music."
"Sometimes you'll just see a C major chord, but in jazz, especially older jazz, you can add a six to it or a major seventh; either one's gonna sound good."
"Never use the darker notes, only the lighter ones, and then you can build chords and melodies more easily."
"A major chord is that one, the three, and the five of your root of your key."
"Get good at chords and understand how chords work and how they're made up."
"What these seventh chords do is just serve to introduce a little bit of extra color that goes beyond the basic major and minor sounds."
"So get your mileage and your money's worth out of these chord shapes."
"Building up a chord in intervals of fourths is considered much more sophisticated and produces a much more modern sound."
"There's only 21 chords you're going to learn that are going to help you play almost any song out there."
"The major chords sound a little bit more bright, a little bit more happy."
"These sus chords are great for this kind of slow, spacey sound."
"The real point of this lesson is for you to learn some different things to embellish those chords, ways that you can enhance them."
"This is just E minor, D major, and C, and then C7 at the end there."
"The point here is that we can take a note and try to find different shapes that work with this chord."
"So I hope I'm convincing you with the power of the chords."
"The four chords that are super popular in modern pop songs are C major, G major, A minor, and F major."
"So today we're gonna talk about five different chords that beginners should know."
"The real key in my mind is analysis of the chords."
"This is called an add nine chord, so beautiful, I love that crunch."
"It's the flat six chord, my favorite functional chord of all."
"It's like a power chord; it doesn't have a third, so it's neither major nor minor."
"Don't be afraid of chords that have weird names."
"Ninth chords are so fat, definitely like Neverland for sure, that took me places."
"I can hear all the notes in my chords."
"I just love that it's just beautiful with these inverted chords."
"It's a very flat fretboard, which I like; I think it makes playing, especially more complex chords, really easy."
"We were really fortunate to learn three chords in life - G, C, and D - and we took it from there."
"When do we change? Let's look at that first, and how many chords do we need."
"Fun fact, that's actually my favorite chord."
"Dominant seventh chords have a really cool ear-catching sound."
"You're going to know what chord inversions are and finally, we're going to look at a few basic chord progressions."
"Major chords sound quite bright, cheerful, happy, and minor chords can sound quite sad, melancholic."
"The underlying idea of harmonic planing is parallel chord movement."
"We're going to use a chord code here for the D minor nine chord, which is 0 3 7 10 14."
"It's a true E chord, so it has the root, third, and fifth note of an E chord."
"A chord chart gives you the chords to a song in the order that they happen."
"Turning anything into a seventh chord can kind of make it a little more interesting, in my opinion."
"It's funny how I don't really think of the scales so much as I think of the chords."
"The chord of C, properly called C major, is made up of three notes: the notes of C, E, and G."
"The whole thing was played using chord shapes."
"Connect everything back to some simple chord shapes, some simple triads."
"You play your chord, and then you play the seven chord, and that creates the tension, and then you resolve the tension."
"Major chords and minor chords consist of three notes each, known as triads."
"If you put a few chords together and play them in a sequence, you have what's called a chord progression."
"If we can have seven notes in the key of a song, why wouldn't there be seven chords as well?"
"One typical move that you hear in the blues when you're hanging out on a chord for a while is you can go back and forth between the one and the four chords."
"When we play over a G chord, we can target the G note; when we play over the C chord, we target the C note; and when we play over the D chord, we target the D note."
"The primary chords are the most used chords in every key."
"A chord is anytime you're playing two or more notes."
"Usually these stabs are made up of a chord, that's part of what makes them unique."
"So some of these chord progressions work very nicely on their own."
"Chords just don't come from outer space; they're not created by a deity nor are they conjured by magic. Chords come from scales."
"I am an absolute sucker for these dub chords."
"Major seven chords are awesome. Oh, I love them."
"Songs use a combination of chords known as chord progression."
"The combination of chords you use in a song is known as your chord progression."
"What the arpeggiator does is it takes chords and it arpeggiates them."
"So depending on the chords that you choose it can also sound a little bit heroic."
"You're going to want to add some of these really beautiful colored notes or money notes to the chord."
"It's a beautiful chord progression."
"So many songs have this G D E minor C, it's one of the most common chord progressions of all time."
"The absolute coolest part of this chord chart is the interchangeable chord options that add color."
"This is such a beautiful chord, one of my favorites ever."
"In this lesson, you will learn how all chords are built and how to build them yourself."
"Chord formula is literally the ingredients that make up a chord."
"Learning the sets of chords for every major key is an incredibly useful skill."
"Understanding that the third is what decides whether a chord is major or minor is very important."
"CAGED stands for C, A, G, E, and D open chords."
"The circle of fifths... lays out all the relationships between all of the notes and all of the chords."
"Even if you don't have the complete understanding of music theory, you can just start with some ninth chords and seventh chords and combine them together."
"You're moving from minor to major chords and back, and that you can throw these chords together and see what sounds nice."
"In general in house music, you will work a lot with seventh chords, ninth chords, even 11 and 13 sometimes."
"It's really just taking a look at chord shapes like the CAGED system."
"They introduce triads, major chords, minor chords, and diminished triads, and inversions."
"When you open up a fake book and you look at a lead sheet, you're going to see seventh chords about 99% of the time."
"What really makes a chord, what really makes a harmony, is a combination of two or more notes which sound pleasing together."
"If you want to make a chord progression more jazzy, more R&B, more heartfelt, use seventh and ninth chords."
"How might we choose the chords? How might we go about examining a melody, seeing the implications for key?"
"If you learn your seventh chords, you're going to have a much easier time playing many Jazz standards."
"An E flat major seven played over the C minor gives us a C minor 9 chord, and that's called superimposition."
"Band-in-a-Box has a tool called the Chord Wizard."
"It's to show you the chords that were used in creating that song and allow you to either play along or create a song based on that chord structure."
"These are the chords that the wizard has interpreted as being the appropriate chords for this particular song."
"Sixth chords: what are they? Right now, if you say '6th chord,' it means that you are adding a sixth, a note that is six notes above the root of a triad chord."
"The most important thing is learning the melody and the chords of the tune you want to arrange and how they relate to each other."
"The cool thing about the one four and five chords, they're actually the only three major chords that you have in any major key."
"For your average kind of 13th chord, you're really going to have like a C major 7 with just an added 13th."
"This 251 is a comfy sequence of chords that helps to establish that last chord as our key center."
"You're gonna hear a lot of seven chord dominant seven chords, it's very common in blues."
"A seventh chord is just a combination of two triads."
"If you're familiar with intervals, then you can build a seventh chord anywhere on the keyboard super quickly."
"The easy formula for remembering major seventh is that a major chord in the left hand and a minor chord in the right hand separated by a major third interval gives us a major seventh triad."
"The formula for a minor seven chord is a minor chord in the left hand and a major chord in the right hand that is separated by a minor third."
"You can see really great way to play all the different chord sets."
"I'll show you some epic chords; those are the coolest chords in the book, guys."
"The chords seem really interesting, right? We get some really cool arpeggiated chords here."
"Mediants deal with either the III chord, which is called the median, or the VI chord, which is called the submedian."
"Talk about just really beautiful yet impactful chords and melody."
"You don't need to learn every single chord; you just need to know what the construction principles are."
"Instead of going back to the C chord, I'm using the A minor chord which is the relative minor."
"All I'm really doing is adding inversions, playing my chords differently, same chords just voiced differently using inversions."
"There are so many chord possibilities or harmonic possibilities when it comes to this progression."
"The two chord is minor, the five chord is dominant, the one chord is major."
"If you can understand how all the chords work together, then it'll really help you memorize those chords."
"These nine chords are really nice because they're very jazzy."
"It just means you can really describe the chords that you're playing over in a clear way."
"It's just a more creative and interesting way of writing chord progressions."
"Oh, gorgeous chords, check out these chords."
"It's just going to be seven chord shapes and a couple of different strum patterns."
"For me, the chords themselves match identically the emotion that I'm feeling."
"You gotta learn those chord formulas."
"I'm going to interpret 'jazzy' pretty broadly and think about how we can build progressions that go beyond the plain vanilla chord."
"When we have intersecting chords, the product of the segments are equal."