Triads | Notes | 7 ths | Notes | 6ths | Notes |
C major | C-E-G | C[sup]maj7[/sup] | C-E-G-B | C[sup]6[/sup] | C-E-G-A |
A minor | A-C-E | Am[sup]7[/sup] | A-C-E-G | Am[sup]6[/sup] | A-C-E-F |
- | - | F[sup]maj7[/sup] | F-A-C-E | Em[sup]6[/sup] | E-G-B-C |
9ths | Notes |
C[sup]maj9[/sup] | C-E-G-B-D |
F[sup]maj9[/sup] | F-A-C-E-G |
Am[sup]9[/sup] | A-C-E-G-B |
Dm[sup]9[/sup] | D-F-A-C-E |
C[sup][sup]6[/sup]/[sub]9[/sub][/sup] | C-E-G-A-D |
Am[sup][sup]6[/sup]/[sub]9[/sub][/sup] | A-C-E-F-B |
Chord name | Notes |
Em[sup]13[/sup] | E-G-B-D-F-A-C |
G[sup]13[/sup] | G-B-D-F-A-C-E |
Bm[sup]7b5b911b13[/sup] or C[sub]/Bm[sup]7b5[/sup][/sub] | B-D-F-A-C-E-G |
As for this being a crash course, I agree, the people who look at this and try to follow it will most likely crash and burn rather than thrive and prosper as you have failed to provide any telling ideas on how to construct a melody.
yeah I probably should've added a different source for reference... first off I appreciate you taking the time to watch and review my video. Also thank you for posting music theory stuff its always helpful for people to run into this stuff; however, with this vid I was trying to avoid all that technical stuff.. my main goal was to show ABSOLUTE newcomers that:It is dangerous to say you are dealing in practicalities not theory and then rely on wikipedia to give you two fundamental definitions of what music theory is all about: Scales and Chords.
Word | Meaning | In C major |
Tonic | The home note | C |
Super-Tonic | The note immediately above the tonic | D |
Mediant | The note half-way between the Tonic and the Dominant | E |
Sub-Dominant | The under dominant, the note 5 tones below the tonic | F |
Dominant | The note 5 tones above the tonic | G |
Sub-Mediant | The note half way between the Tonic and the Sub-Dominant | A |
Leading Tone | The note immediately below the Tonic | B |
Sub-Dominant | - | Sub-Mediant | Leading Tone | Tonic | Super-Tonic | Mediant | - | Dominant |
F | G | A | B | C | D | E | F | G |
4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
Hi I'm not promoting anything, those files are actually native to Fl Studio... as far as right-clicking the pencil I think I ran into that a long time ago and completely forgot, thanks for bringing it up! I don't see any issues with using or not using shortcuts in these kind of videos. If I wanted to teach shortcuts I would make a separate video all together related to that.Are you promoting some kind of files? Words of advice, because I see alot of videos like this where the people teaching hardly know how to use the program theirself.
These discussions are so useful to me. I knew what the tonic, dominant & subdominant notes were, but the rest of these terms were new to me. Thanks bc! Does this terminology hold true fore all major scales?Agreed, ke, but finishing on the tonic is a very small idea in the grand scheme of composing melodies, mainly because for every time that you do finish on the tonic, there will be at least 10 times that you don't need to, mainly because the finishing chord does not contain the tonic.
Classical melodic construction insists that you vary your end of phrase note from the tonic to the supertonic to the leading tone to the dominant to the tonic or any other note that is appropriate for the chord progression in use...
in C major these would be C-D-B-G-C.
In addition to the tonic note against the tonic chord you can also have the mediant and dominant
Language Lesson
Word Meaning In C major Tonic The home note C Super-Tonic The note immediately above the tonic D Mediant The note half-way between the Tonic and the Dominant E Sub-Dominant The under dominant, the note 5 tones below the tonic F Dominant The note 5 tones above the tonic G Sub-Mediant The note half way between the Tonic and the Sub-Dominant A Leading Tone The note immediately below the Tonic B
Arranging the major scale so that we can see the impact of these names on note position
Sub-Dominant - Sub-Mediant Leading Tone Tonic Super-Tonic Mediant - Dominant F G A B C D E F G 4 5 6 7 1 2 3 4 5
Hi I'm not promoting anything, those files are actually native to Fl Studio... as far as right-clicking the pencil I think I ran into that a long time ago and completely forgot, thanks for bringing it up! I don't see any issues with using or not using shortcuts in these kind of videos. If I wanted to teach shortcuts I would make a separate video all together related to that.
I'm glad you learned something at all, and as far as inversions that is just another concept I wasn't going to cover EVERYTHING.
thanks for the constructive criticism and I am aware that there is a lot more things I can teach, should I take it down and re-upload with more information?