{"id":478,"date":"2008-10-22T13:46:50","date_gmt":"2008-10-22T20:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hearandplay.com\/main\/heres-a-foolproof-guide-thatll-have-you-naming-chords-correctly-tonight"},"modified":"2024-12-25T19:12:10","modified_gmt":"2024-12-26T03:12:10","slug":"heres-a-foolproof-guide-thatll-have-you-naming-chords-correctly-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hearplaymain.wpenginepowered.com\/heres-a-foolproof-guide-thatll-have-you-naming-chords-correctly-tonight\/","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s a foolproof guide that&#8217;ll have you naming chords correctly&#8230; TONIGHT!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='https:\/\/www.hearandplay.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/checklist-big.jpg' class='videopic' alt='checklist-big.jpg' \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hearandplay.com\/main\/at-last-a-foolproof-method-for-naming-chords\">Yesterday&#8217;s lesson<\/a> was one of my longest yet. And it was worth it!<\/p>\n<p>I took you through a foolproof method for naming <a href=\"https:\/\/my.leadpages.net\/leadbox\/141e8f273f72a2%3A14dcc288eb46dc\/5650082896543744\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">chords<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/my.leadpages.net\/leadbox-714.js\"><\/script> correctly. And many of you were helped tremendously (per your comments and radio show feedback last night).<\/p>\n<p>Today, I want to make it even plainer.<\/p>\n<p>If you recall from yesterday, the whole idea was this &#8212; if your major, minor, dominant, diminished, augmented, and seventh chords skip one alphabet letter between each tone, then they pass the test. If they don&#8217;t skip one alphabet letter or skip more than one, then they fail. That&#8217;s why I call it &#8220;foolproof&#8221; because it&#8217;s too easy.<\/p>\n<p>For example, if I write an F# minor chord as:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>F# + A + Db<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;it fails!<\/p>\n<p>Why? Well, the first two letters pass because they skip an alphabet letter. In other words, between &#8220;F&#8221; and &#8220;A&#8221; is &#8220;G.&#8221; Get it? But the &#8220;Db&#8221; fails because it skips more than one alphabet letter. From &#8220;A,&#8221; I&#8217;ve not only skipped &#8220;B&#8221; but also &#8220;C&#8221; and that just can&#8217;t work. <\/p>\n<p>Without getting too technical, erroneously using &#8220;Db&#8221; makes this interval a FOURTH. And major, minor, dominant, diminished and the rest of our friends aren&#8217;t made up of fourths&#8230; they&#8217;re made up of <strong>THIRDS.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(That&#8217;s review though because <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hearandplay.com\/main\/at-last-a-foolproof-method-for-naming-chords\">yesterday&#8217;s lesson<\/a> covered all that.)<\/p>\n<p>So what could we do with that Db to make it correct?<\/p>\n<p>Answer:<\/p>\n<p>Change it to C#&#8230; which is what it should be anyway!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>F# minor<br \/>\nF# + A + C#\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Passes the test! I&#8217;m happy. The F# is happy because I&#8217;m spelling her name right. Everyone&#8217;s happy!<\/p>\n<p>But even with that said, some folks had a little trouble so I want to make it even more plain in this lesson.<\/p>\n<p>Notice that I&#8217;ve limited this foolproof test to certain chords.<\/p>\n<p>(The good news is that there aren&#8217;t that many &#8220;other&#8221; chords that don&#8217;t work with the foolproof test&#8230; most do).<\/p>\n<p>What do these chords all have in common:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Major triad<br \/>\nMinor triad<br \/>\nDiminished triad<br \/>\nAugmented triad<br \/>\nMajor seventh<br \/>\nMinor seventh<br \/>\nDominant seventh<br \/>\nAugmented seventh<br \/>\nMajor ninth<br \/>\nMinor ninth<br \/>\nDominant ninth<br \/>\nMajor eleventh<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nMajor thirteenth (pretty much all the same variations as above: major, minor, dominant)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What do they have in common?<\/p>\n<p><strong>They are built on third intervals. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s most chords, too!<\/p>\n<p>I mean, besides <em>secundals<\/em>, <em>quartal<\/em> and <em>quintal<\/em> chords (like tritones), and some others &#8212; all other <a href=\"https:\/\/my.leadpages.net\/leadbox\/141e8f273f72a2%3A14dcc288eb46dc\/5650082896543744\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">POPULAR chords<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/my.leadpages.net\/leadbox-714.js\"><\/script> you&#8217;re used to playing and talking about are built on <strong>thirds.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For example:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A major chord is a major third on bottom with a minor third on top (C to E is the major third&#8230; E to G is the minor third. Together they create C major).<\/li>\n<li>A minor chord is the opposite. A minor third on the bottom and a major third on top.<\/li>\n<li>A diminished chord is simply a minor third on bottom and a minor third on top.<\/li>\n<li>An augmented chord is a major third on bottom and a major third on top.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And all we do when we play seventh chords, ninths, elevenths, and thirteenths is add more THIRDS. <\/p>\n<p>Yes! These chords get big but they can all be broken down into thirds.<\/p>\n<p>And chords that are built with major and minor thirds are called <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/my.leadpages.net\/leadbox\/141e8f273f72a2%3A14dcc288eb46dc\/5650082896543744\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TERTIAN CHORDS<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/my.leadpages.net\/leadbox-714.js\"><\/script><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>(Again, that&#8217;s most chords out there!)<\/p>\n<p>So basically the foolproof test will work for almost anything because as long as it&#8217;s built with thirds, it MUST follow the rules. <\/p>\n<p>It can&#8217;t extend more than 3 alphabet letters as a whole, which results in the &#8220;skipped&#8221; alphabet letter in the middle&#8230; ALWAYS! <\/p>\n<p>Like C to E &#8212; that&#8217;s a third. It covers three alphabet letters: C, D, and E. The D is not played of course&#8230; just the C and E are. The &#8220;D&#8221; is the skipped alphabet letter I&#8217;ve been talking about.<\/p>\n<p>Take F to A. It&#8217;s a third, too. Spans three alphabet letters in its interval: F, G, and A. Of course, G isn&#8217;t played but it&#8217;s contained in the interval. It&#8217;s the &#8220;skipped&#8221; letter.<\/p>\n<p>So that&#8217;s how you can always check your naming. And that is always true on any part of the chord. Even if the chord has 6 notes, it should follow these rules (unless the notes start being altered, and, truth be told, even MOST altered chords will follow this rule&#8230; like a &#8220;flat 9&#8221; alteration, for example, should still be flatting the <strong>same alphabet letter<\/strong>, not changing it).<\/p>\n<p>But here&#8217;s another thing that can help you out&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>You know the <a href=\"https:\/\/my.leadpages.net\/leadbox\/141e8f273f72a2%3A14dcc288eb46dc\/5650082896543744\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">diatonic chords<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/my.leadpages.net\/leadbox-714.js\"><\/script> of the scale? You know, the ones I&#8217;ve covered in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hearandplay.com\/main\/the-what-key-am-i-in-game-episode-1\">several past lessons<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Basically, the idea is if you take every other note (ummm, &#8220;foolproof method&#8221;) of the scale, you&#8217;ll naturally create certain chords on each tone of the scale.<\/p>\n<p>Like if I take the C major scale and play every other note of the scale starting on C, I&#8217;ll get: C + E + G + B. If I scoot over to the right and do the same thing on D (using the same notes of the C major scale), I&#8217;ll get: D + F + A + C. As you keep doing that, you&#8217;ll get chords on every tone of the scale. Some will be major 7 chords. Others will end up being minor 7 chords. Another will be a dominant 7 and the last one will be a half-diminished 7 chord.<\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s not what&#8217;s important here. You can find tons of lessons on that using the search box above. <\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s important is what I&#8217;m about to share with you.<\/p>\n<p>Did you know that the chords created from this one C major example can help you PROPERLY name any tertian chord out there?<\/p>\n<p>Take a look at this guide I made below&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/www.hearandplay.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/foolproofchordnaming.jpg' alt='foolproofchordnaming.jpg' \/><\/p>\n<p>What I&#8217;ve done is highlight the chords created off each tone of C major. They show up in red. Print this out. You will never misname a tertian chord again.<\/p>\n<p>See the &#8220;C + E + G + B&#8221; row?<\/p>\n<p>What this means is that any C chord (I don&#8217;t care if it&#8217;s major, minor, dominant, or diminished) should have some kind of C in it&#8230; some kind of E in it&#8230; some kind of G in it&#8230; and if it&#8217;s a 4-toned chord, some kind of B.<\/p>\n<p>The only exceptions are various <em><a href=\"https:\/\/my.leadpages.net\/leadbox\/141e8f273f72a2%3A14dcc288eb46dc\/5650082896543744\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">altered chords<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/my.leadpages.net\/leadbox-714.js\"><\/script><\/em> and <em><a href=\"https:\/\/my.leadpages.net\/leadbox\/141e8f273f72a2%3A14dcc288eb46dc\/5650082896543744\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">non-tertian chords<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/my.leadpages.net\/leadbox-714.js\"><\/script><\/em> (ones that aren&#8217;t built off third intervals but that&#8217;s rare).<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s see if this holds true.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s a C major chord?<\/p>\n<p>C + E + G<\/p>\n<p>Does it pass? Yes!<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s a C minor chord?<\/p>\n<p>C + Eb + G<\/p>\n<p>Does it pass? Yes! <\/p>\n<p>(Remember, it doesn&#8217;t matter what kind of C, or what kind of E or what kind of G. All the foolproof test is concerned with is the alphabet letters that are being used. It&#8217;s your job to make sure you&#8217;re playing &#8220;Eb&#8221; versus &#8220;E&#8221; in a minor chord because the foolproof test doesn&#8217;t get that involved. It just makes sure you&#8217;re meeting the minimum naming requirements and not calling &#8220;Eb&#8221; a &#8220;D#&#8221;&#8230; believe me, it happens all too often.)<\/p>\n<p>How about a C minor 7 chord?<\/p>\n<p>C + Eb + G + Bb<\/p>\n<p>It passes! Some kind of C, some kind of E, some kind of G, and some kind of B.<\/p>\n<p>What about a tricky one&#8230; C diminished 7:<\/p>\n<p>C + Eb + G + Bbb<\/p>\n<p>(Yes, &#8220;B&#8221; double flat. We covered this yesterday).<\/p>\n<p>Most people, and I&#8217;m guilty of this when I don&#8217;t want to say &#8220;B double flat,&#8221; will just say &#8220;A&#8221; there. Of course, it will still sound right when you play it. LoL, just cause&#8217; you spell it wrong doesn&#8217;t mean you don&#8217;t know how to <strong>say it right.<\/strong> But in terms of musical grammar, a TERTIAN chord starting on C will always have some kind of C, some kind of E, some kind of G &#8212; and if it gets bigger than a triad, some kind of &#8220;B.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Same goes for every other chord on my chart. Any D chord you write out should have some kind of D, some kind of F, some kind of A &#8212; and if it&#8217;s bigger, some kind of C.<\/p>\n<p>You get it?<\/p>\n<p>This chart is just not a list of diatonic chords in C major. It&#8217;s a list of what alphabet letters your chords SHOULD have in them to pass the foolproof test.<\/p>\n<p>So print that chart out and any time we do an exercise, make sure your chords pass this test and contain the same alphabet letters as the guide above and you&#8217;ll be fine!<\/p>\n<p>Until next time &#8212;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/www.hearandplay.com\/main\/heres-a-foolproof-guide-thatll-have-you-naming-chords-correctly-tonight\/481\/' rel='attachment wp-att-481' title='checklistsmall.jpg'><img src='https:\/\/www.hearandplay.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/checklistsmall.jpg' class='videopic' alt='checklistsmall.jpg' \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hearandplay.com\/main\/at-last-a-foolproof-method-for-naming-chords\">Yesterday&#8217;s lesson<\/a> was one of my longest yet. And it was worth it! I took you through a foolproof method for naming chords correctly. 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