- Let's build some triads with
music theory in the key of C.
With music theory, we're going
to make chords in C major scale.
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Hey friends, I'm Arthur from
the Music Nerd Revolution.
We're gonna build chords
with just three notes,
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In the last episode on music theory,
we talked about C major scale
and a little bit how to build chords.
If you missed that episode,
look at that one first.
The link is in the description.
I will be waiting for you.
The first, the third, the
fifth tone in C major scale
is used to build a chord.
I wanna build four chords
that is easy to play
on piano and guitar, and
that is C G Am and F.
Thousands of songs have these
four-chord progressions,
and I want you to get
the fundamentals as well.
To build a C major chord, you take the C.
That is the first note.
You take the E.
That is the third note.
And you take the G.
That is the fifth note.
The C is called tonic,
the E is called mediant,
and the G is called dominant.
And there we have the C major chord.
The next chord is G, and
the concept is the same.
The tones are different.
The G is the first note,
and that is called tonic.
The third note is B, and
that is called mediant.
And the fifth note is D,
and that is called dominant.
And there we have G major chord.
Then we have Am.
That is the relative key in C major scale.
And don't you worry, we're
gonna talk more about this
further down the road.
But the relative key is
the major and minor scales
that have the same key signature.
An Am chord has the tonic A,
the mediant C,
and the dominant E.
The concept is the same.
The first, the third, the fifth note.
The F chord has the same principles
as the other three chords.
F is the tonic note,
A is the mediant note,
C is the dominant note,
and if you add an E, you
get a F major seventh chord,
or a new face.
With these four chords, you
can play thousands of songs.
Challenge yourself and
do a song with them.
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