{"id":775,"date":"2009-10-20T15:45:50","date_gmt":"2009-10-20T22:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hearandplay.com\/main\/the-secret-to-primary-and-secondary-chords"},"modified":"2024-12-25T18:01:33","modified_gmt":"2024-12-26T02:01:33","slug":"the-secret-to-primary-and-secondary-chords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hearplaymain.wpenginepowered.com\/the-secret-to-primary-and-secondary-chords\/","title":{"rendered":"The Secret To Primary And Secondary Chords"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>   >NOTE: To learn ALL the techniques and strategies to<br \/>\nplaying chords and patterns in songs, go here:<\/p>\n<p>   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hearandplay.com\/products\">https:\/\/www.hearandplay.com\/products<\/a><\/p>\n<p>   After last week&#8217;s e-mail, I received the most replies ever.<br \/>\nHere&#8217;s another one I think will really help you  (VERY IMPORTANT<br \/>\nSTRATEGIES BELOW).It&#8217;s from a gentleman named Mark.<\/p>\n<p>   ***Comment From Mark H.***<\/p>\n<p>Hi Jermaine,<\/p>\n<p>Last week&#8217;s e-mail was totally awesome! This number system<br \/>\nstuff is quite new to me but you&#8217;ve totally made it plain.  You<br \/>\ncertainly have a knack for breaking stuff down and I want to<br \/>\nthank you for taking the time to do this.<\/p>\n<p>On one of your blog posts, you talked about primary and<br \/>\nsecondary chords. You also talked about how each tone of the<br \/>\nscale has its own chord that is usually played.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m having a hard time remember all these chords and where they<br \/>\ngo. Let&#8217;s not even talk about all <a href=\"https:\/\/my.leadpages.net\/leadbox\/141e8f273f72a2%3A14dcc288eb46dc\/5650082896543744\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">12 keys<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/my.leadpages.net\/leadbox-714.js\"><\/script> because I can&#8217;t<br \/>\nremember even one key. Please help!<\/p>\n<p>Mark H Dallas, TX<\/p>\n<p>   >>> My Comments and explanations back to Mark (read closely as<br \/>\nyou can get a lot out of what I had to say to him):<\/p>\n<p>Hey Mark,<\/p>\n<p>   Appreciate your positive feedback!<\/p>\n<p>   I have a really easy way for you to remember all the primary<br \/>\nand secondary chords and it won&#8217;t take that long to master it.<\/p>\n<p>   All it takes is for you to know your major chords. Like I<br \/>\nteach musicians all the time, you can play both minor scales and<br \/>\nminor chords by understanding major chords and their<br \/>\nrelationships to minor chords.<\/p>\n<p>   Don&#8217;t worry, I&#8217;ll explain&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>   Since you mentioned primary and secondary chords, let me<br \/>\ntouch on those for a minute.<\/p>\n<p>   Every <a href=\"https:\/\/my.leadpages.net\/leadbox\/141e8f273f72a2%3A14dcc288eb46dc\/5650082896543744\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">major key<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/my.leadpages.net\/leadbox-714.js\"><\/script> has what we call primary and secondary<br \/>\nchords. The primary chords of any given key are the 1st, 4th,<br \/>\nand 5th chords. These numbers come from the scale. In the key of<br \/>\nC, C is the 1st tone of the scale, D is the 2nd tone of the<br \/>\nscale, E is the 3rd tone, and so forth.<\/p>\n<p>   So the 1st, 4th, and 5th chords of the key of C major are C,<br \/>\nF,  and G (in that order). They are always major chords. These<br \/>\nchords will occur in music the most. The 1st chord of the scale<br \/>\nis the key that you&#8217;re in so it&#8217;s always going to feel like<br \/>\n&#8220;home.&#8221; This chord will begin and end your songs. When a<br \/>\nnon-musical audience hears the 1-chord, they know to clap<br \/>\nbecause the song feels at rest&#8230; at home&#8230; at peace. It&#8217;s the<br \/>\nend and they don&#8217;t have to be musically-inclined to know that.<\/p>\n<p>   The 4th chord of the scale, the next primary chord, is like<br \/>\nbeing away from home but at a close relative&#8217;s house. It&#8217;s &#8216;home<br \/>\naway from home.&#8217; There is a very strong connection between the<br \/>\n1st tone (real home) and the 4th tone (home away from home).<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s why countless songs go from &#8220;the 1 to the 4.&#8221; It&#8217;s one of<br \/>\nthe MOST POPULAR movements in music, hands down.<\/p>\n<p>   So, if the 1 is &#8216;being at home&#8217; and the 4 is being &#8216;away from<br \/>\nhome,&#8217; then the 5 is &#8216;coming back home.&#8217; The 5 has a strong<br \/>\nconnection and tendency to lead back home to the 1st chord. When<br \/>\nyou tell your kids to get in the car because we have to go home,<br \/>\nthat&#8217;s the 5 coming home to the 1 in music.<\/p>\n<p>   So now that you have a good understanding of the primary<br \/>\nchords (1, 4, 5), the secondary chords are EVERYTHING ELSE&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>   That literally leaves the 2nd, 3rd, 6th, and 7th tones of<br \/>\nthe scale. And the good news is three of those are simple minor<br \/>\nchords that can be played by understanding the three primary<br \/>\nmajor chords we just covered.<\/p>\n<p>   Let&#8217;s go to the key of C major:<\/p>\n<p>   C D E F G A B C<br \/>\n   1 2 3 4 5 6 7<\/p>\n<p>   You already know that C major, F major, and G major are<br \/>\nprimary chords.<\/p>\n<p>   But what you probably don&#8217;t know is that the three minor<br \/>\nsecondary chords are relatives to the primary chords. They are<br \/>\nlike sisters and brothers, if you will.<\/p>\n<p>   (Now this is like 5 chapters of a music theory book covered<br \/>\nin one e-mail but let&#8217;s go for it.)<\/p>\n<p>   Every major key has what you call a relative minor. In other<br \/>\nwords, every major key has a minor key that &#8220;pairs&#8221; with it.<br \/>\nThis minor key has the same notes in its scale as the major<br \/>\nkey&#8230; it has the same sharps and flats as well.<\/p>\n<p>   You can pretty much call them brother-sister scales. One<br \/>\nbeing major and one being minor. They share EVERYTHING.<\/p>\n<p>   For C major, that relative minor is &#8216;A minor.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>   Now before we delve a little deeper into this, let&#8217;s look at<br \/>\nthe C major and A minor scales:<\/p>\n<p>   C major<\/p>\n<p>   C D E F G A B C<br \/>\n   1 2 3 4 5 6 7<\/p>\n<p>   A minor<\/p>\n<p>   A B C D E F G A<br \/>\n   1 2 3 4 5 6 7<\/p>\n<p>   Do they use different notes or the same notes? <\/p>\n<p>   Answer: same notes<\/p>\n<p>   Do they both have the same number of flats and sharps?<\/p>\n<p>   Answer: Yes, because C has no flats\/sharps and A minor has<br \/>\n           no flats\/sharps.<\/p>\n<p>They are relatives, that&#8217;s why! They are closely related. They<br \/>\nshare the same house, sort of!<\/p>\n<p>Every major scale has one of these. In fact, you can create the<br \/>\n&#8220;A minor&#8221; scale just by understanding the C major scale.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what you do:<\/p>\n<p>(I started to make bullet points but this is too simple so I&#8217;ll<br \/>\njust say it)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Just go to the 6th tone of your major scale. That&#8217;s it. Just<br \/>\nplay your major scale starting on the 6th tone until you get<br \/>\nback to that same 6th tone.<\/p>\n<p>   C major<\/p>\n<p>   C D E F G A B C D E F G A B C<br \/>\n   1 2 3 4 5 6 7<\/p>\n<p>Ok, this is the C major scale. I&#8217;m just going up an extra<br \/>\noctave with this example (that&#8217;s why you see double the notes).<\/p>\n<p>What tone is the 6th tone?<\/p>\n<p>Answer: A<\/p>\n<p>So what do you do?<\/p>\n<p>Answer: Play this same scale without changing ANY notes from A<br \/>\nto A. Like this:  A B C D E F G A <\/p>\n<p>What does that give you?<\/p>\n<p>Answer: The &#8220;A minor scale&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bam! You&#8217;re done! Now you know how to play the &#8220;A minor&#8221; scale.<br \/>\nAnd the best part is that you don&#8217;t have to remember any new<br \/>\nscales. You can &#8220;piggy back&#8221; off what you already know.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s why it&#8217;s important to know the number system because<br \/>\nshorctus like this are EVERYWHERE. This is what I cover in my<br \/>\nStarter 702 course. If I were you, I&#8217;d pick it up. It&#8217;s only $17<br \/>\nbucks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\" https:\/\/www.hearandplay.com\/playbyear.html\">https:\/\/www.hearandplay.com\/playbyear.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>So now let&#8217;s go back to this whole &#8216;primary and secondary chord&#8217;<br \/>\nstuff.<\/p>\n<p>Basically, just how you learned the &#8220;A minor&#8221; scale from<br \/>\nknowing your C major scale, you can do the same with CHORDS.<\/p>\n<p>You just take a C major chord (C+E+G) and put &#8220;A&#8221; on your bass<br \/>\nand you&#8217;ve got yourself an &#8220;A minor 7&#8221; chord. How cool is that?<\/p>\n<p>Just how you piggy-backed on the C scale to play the &#8220;A&#8221; minor<br \/>\nscale, you do the same to play the A minor 7 chord. Crazy huh?<\/p>\n<p>You can do this with any major chord.<\/p>\n<p>F major chord = F+A+C<br \/>\n6th tone of F major = D<\/p>\n<p>Playing D on your left hand as the bass and F+A+C on your right<br \/>\nhand creates a D minor 7 chord.<\/p>\n<p>G major chord = G+B+D<br \/>\n6th tone of G major = E  (if you were in the key of G, this<br \/>\nwould be the 6th tone &#8212; gotta know your scales and numbers<br \/>\nlike we talked about in my last e-mail).<\/p>\n<p>Playing E on your left hand as the bass and G+B+D on your right<br \/>\nhand creates an E minor 7 chord.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s simple. So if you know all <a href=\"https:\/\/my.leadpages.net\/leadbox\/141e8f273f72a2%3A14dcc288eb46dc\/5650082896543744\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">12 major chords<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/my.leadpages.net\/leadbox-714.js\"><\/script>, now you should<br \/>\neasily know all 12 minor chords by doing this easy exercise.<\/p>\n<p>The magic number in this case is &#8220;6.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Note: There are magic numbers for other stuff too. But for minor<br \/>\nrelationships, it&#8217;s 6. See my course below for details.<\/p>\n<p>So if C major, F major, and G major are the primary chords of<br \/>\nthe key of C, then you can apply this same idea to learn your<br \/>\nminor secondary chords.<\/p>\n<p>1st, 4th, and 5th = primary chords<\/p>\n<p>2nd, 3rd, 6th, 7th = secondary chords<\/p>\n<p>And as you now know, the primary chords help you to play the<br \/>\nsecondary chords.<\/p>\n<p>2nd tone = D&#8230; but all you gotta do is play an F major chord<br \/>\nover D to play a D minor 7 chord. Easy!<\/p>\n<p>3rd tone = E&#8230; but all you gotta do is play a G major chord<br \/>\nover E to play an E minor 7 chord. Even easier!<\/p>\n<p>6th tone = A&#8230; but all you gotta do is play a C major chord<br \/>\nover A to play an A minor 7 chord. Bam!<\/p>\n<p>So in other words&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The 1st and 6th tones pair up.<br \/>\nThe 2nd and 4th tones pair up.<br \/>\nThe 3rd and 5th tones pair up.<\/p>\n<p>That takes care of EVERY tone of the scale pretty much. The<br \/>\nonly one left is the 7th tone of the scale. That won&#8217;t be a<br \/>\nmajor or minor chord&#8230; it&#8217;s a diminished or half-diminished<br \/>\nchord depending on whether you&#8217;re going to use 3 or 4 notes to<br \/>\nplay it. But unfortunately, I&#8217;ve spent way too much time on this<br \/>\nand won&#8217;t have enough time to cover it.<\/p>\n<p>However, check out this very affordable course to get the low<br \/>\ndown on all this&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>   To learn other unique techniques and strategies you can use<br \/>\nto master chords and take your playing to the next level,  go to<br \/>\n the link below. I recommend either my 300-pg course or my<br \/>\nStarter  702 audio course (or BOTH). The Starter 702 course is<br \/>\ncheap&#8230;  a steal&#8230; $17 bucks and covers much of what I&#8217;ve<br \/>\ntalked about  here&#8230; but with my VOICE and piano explaining<br \/>\neverything. If you&#8217;re serious, check it out:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\" https:\/\/www.hearandplay.com\/playbyear.html\"><br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.hearandplay.com\/playbyear.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>   If you were a bit helped by the words I&#8217;ve written here,<br \/>\nthen this audio course will REALLY be helpful because you&#8217;ll<br \/>\nhear me talking about all this stuff for 2 whole hours,<br \/>\nreinforcing every little concept over and over. You&#8217;ll like it.<\/p>\n<p>   Talk soon,<\/p>\n<p>   Jermaine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>  After last week&#8217;s e-mail, I received the most replies ever.<br \/>\nHere&#8217;s another one I think will really help you  (VERY IMPORTANT<br \/>\nSTRATEGIES BELOW).It&#8217;s from a gentleman named Mark.<\/p>\n<p>   ***Comment From Mark H.***<\/p>\n<p>Hi Jermaine,<\/p>\n<p>Last week&#8217;s e-mail was totally awesome! This number system<br \/>\nstuff is quite new to me but you&#8217;ve totally made it plain.  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You also talked about how each tone of the<br \/>\nscale has its own chord that is usually played.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23185,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[502,527,407,406,1329],"class_list":["post-775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chords-progressions","tag-diatonic-chords","tag-primary-chords","tag-relative-major","tag-relative-minor","tag-secondary-chords","post-wrapper","thrv_wrapper"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Secret To Primary And Secondary Chords - Hear and Play Music Learning Center<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/hearplaymain.wpenginepowered.com\/the-secret-to-primary-and-secondary-chords\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Secret To Primary And Secondary Chords - Hear and Play Music Learning Center\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"After last week&#039;s e-mail, I received the most replies ever. 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