Lesson 7: Chord Construction Made Easier (part 2)

I should be able to figure out all the notes that are used in a major scale to make up a chord...
Looking back at the first part of lesson 7 and a (major) scale as numbers 
gives me 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 from a given the root note.
By placing my fingers on the guitar at the root note shown in the image below

A table of notes in a scale is constructed from the scale pattern above where 1 is the root note starting point and then looking at the distance between the notes. 1 to 2 is one step/tone, 2 to 3 is one step/tone,  3 to 4 is half a step/tone etc.

I should be able to figure em out and draw them all up in the table below (and I'm going to force myself to do it to make sure I get it!)

1

root

C

C#

D

D#

E

F

F#

G

G#

A

A#

B

2

minor

D

D#

E

F

F#

G

G#

A

A#

B

C

C#

3

minor

E

F

F#

G

G#

A

A#

B

C

C#

D

D#

4

major

F

F#

G

G#

A

A#

B

C

C#

D

D#

E

5

major

G

G#

A

A#

B

C

C#

D

D#

E

F

F#

6

relative minor

A

A#

B

C

C#

D

D#

E

F

F#

G

G#

7

major (can be flattened for a blues sound)

B

C

C#

D

D#

E

F

F#

G

G#

A

A#

8

octave

C

C#

D

D#

E

F

F#

G

G#

A

A#

B

HTML table ALERT :) 

it has been a long time since I've done one of those!

Now to make the Major chord you need the 1, 3, & 5th notes in that scale.
Easy so far!


To make the Major 6 you need the 1, 3, 5 & 6th notes in that scale.
I'm still following! 


To make the Major 7 you need the 1, 3, 5, & 7th notes in that scale.
Yes, thankfully, it is that easy :)


To make the Minor chord you flatten the 3rd so you need 1, 3b & 5th notes in the scale.


Minor 7 is 1, 3b, 5 & 7thb


Suspended 2 is 1, 2 & 5th


Suspended 4 is 1, 4 & 5th


C or D is an easy one to try that out on. Play the D and then try to add those notes in and magically you will be making those chords.
I like magic!


To be sure there are plenty of other chords but this is a good of enough start for me in my effort to rule the world and understand the beginning of chord building on a guitar.

Lesson 7: Chord Construction Made Easier (part 1)

Lesson 6 was a bit too much in the deep end. So I was after something to help me understand it in a more structured way, something with numbers (which for me was going to be a simpler way).

To find the notes that make a chord:

• Put your 2nd finger on the root note. That's note 1 in the sequence. So in the key of C, and the chord of C, you need to find the root note on the top, fat, E string. That's going to be the 8th fret on the top E string. This puts your fingers in a good starting point for the notes that make up the chord of C.
• The next note in the sequence is 2 frets up, where your little finger is sitting over the 10th fret. That's going to be a D and it is note 2 in the sequence.
• That sets you up for the note pattern shown blow (in red crosses). The rest of the notes look like this:

X marks the spot to the pattern to the notes above.

Also numerically (where it makes sense for me!)

To build a (MAJ) chord you want to take the 1st, 3rd and 5th note of the (MAJ) scale.

So in C you want 1 - C, 3 - E & 5 - G.

If you now finger a C chord down at the zero fret you will see that those are the 3 notes that make up a 'C'.

Next time will go into how other notes modify a MAJ chord.