Fun Stuff > BAND
[Piano] What's this called?
Eddie 88:
I'm a novice pianist; I can construct and play all the major scales forward and backward, I've mastered the first five Hanon exercises, I can play a few pieces (mostly blues, jazz, and...heh, Final Fantasy themes) and I can transcribe music pretty well from an MP3.
Anyway, I was just messing around on the piano and noticed something. If you construct a triad consisting of any key, then the next note four semitones above it, then the next note three semitones above that, the chord will sound good. Try it! Just start at C and play a triad where the next note is four semitone above, and the top note is three semitones above that. This obviously gives you the C major chord, but keep going; C# F G#, D F# A, D# G A#, E G# B, etc.
You hit a lot of major chords and inversions as you keep going on like this. Anyway, I'm sure this is a recognized phenomenon, but is there a name for it or something? And if anyone knows much about music theory -- WHY does a note, the next four semitones above and the next three semitones above that sound good together?
Spluff:
I'm not sure what you're getting at. You're just playing a major triad in any key. If you take any note and add a major third and a fifth, you're going to get a major chord.
sean:
yeah dude you are just playing major triads. considering you know how say you know major scales you should know what a goddamn chord is.
try turning yr brain on before you make a thread?
Eddie 88:
Wait, a key plus another key four semitones higher and a third three semitones higher than that is the definition of a chord? My teacher never taught me that. I was taught how to do chords visually.
But the major chords and inversions don't cover all the possible chords you can make with the root + 4 + 3 method. So, any time you play a root + 4 + 3 it's just called a chord? And when your root so happens to be the first note in a key signiture, that's what makes it a major chord (or minor chord, but I haven't gotten to minor chords yet)?
sean:
--- Quote from: Eddie 88 on 18 Feb 2010, 07:26 --- I was taught how to do chords visually.
--- End quote ---
uh, what does that even mean?
--- Quote ---But the major chords and inversions don't cover all the possible chords you can make with the root + 4 + 3 method. So, any time you play a root + 4 + 3 it's just called a chord? And when your root so happens to be the first note in a key signiture, that's what makes it a major chord (or minor chord, but I haven't gotten to minor chords yet)?
--- End quote ---
oh dear lord yr mind is a complete fucking mess. okay im gonna give you a quick music theory crash course.
and fuck i just deleted the big long response i wrote. gimmie a few minutes to recollect my thoughts and then ill type it out again.
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
Go to full version