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going to focus on chord codes now chord
codes are an extremely best way to get
into music theory without knowing
anything about music theory and it's the
most rewarding in my opinion way to go
about learning music theory so for
example I can use a chord code instead
of memorizing a scale and memorizing you
know note values and all these things I
can literally blindfold myself I'm
literally with my eyes closed going
around my keyboard let's land on a key
where ever yet we're at B now I'm
looking at my screen so I can start at
the note B here and I can build out a
chord any chord that I like so for
example if I want to make a B major nine
for example there's a chord code for a
major nine just like there's a name for
a pokeymon you know when you see that
pokemon you're like that's a Bulbasaur
or that's a Charizard it's the same
thing with chords you're like oh now I
know how to make a major nine no matter
where I am on the keyboard no matter
which level pokemon it is I know there's
a ball boos or could be level 69 there
could be level nine so let's start here
at B for Bulbasaur
and let's map out major nine so that
major nine chord is gonna be zero four
seven eleven fourteen you don't have to
memorize this stuff because we have a
chord code book for you but for example
let's start here at zero now we call
this zero because it's the resting point
we're not going anywhere there's no
distance between notes here so we call
that the resting point or zero the zero
point okay now we're gonna count up our
keyboard so it's zero four seven eleven
fourteen so zero one two three four five
six seven eight nine ten
12 13 14 so now we have a B major 7 I
assume your B major nine chord the
reason we know this is a major nine
chord is because of the chord code this
transposed is down an octave and zero so
if you get lost you can always go back 0
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 so if
you want to explore new chords you've
never played before because you don't
know certain keys this stuff will go
right by the key and you'll learn a
music theory that sometimes we go
outside the key or outside the scale to
pull from different scales
that's why court coats are so powerful
you can reverse engineer chords you can
build chords without knowing anything
about the scale you can identify chords
it's very powerful chord codes are my
favorite technique to use in music
theory and music production so you can
do a lot with chord codes you know I was
playing around there but chord codes are
so exciting I'm literally closing my
eyes picking a note on the keyboard
that's the first step that's called your
zero point after your zero point you
start to apply the court code number by
numbers so as long as you can count you
can figure this out all you have to do
is pick a zero point now let me move up
an octave so again I'm closing my eyes
let's pick a note right B again let's
try a different note happen to land on B
and now we're at G okay so let's say you
want to make a let's pick a chord which
is a cool chord let's try a minor seven
chord so for minor seven there's a chord
code the chord code is zero three seven
ten so this is our zero point because
this is where we start and all we have
to do is go up the keyboard counting so
it's zero
one two three four five six seven eight
nine ten and that's our minor seven so
now even if you weren't used to playing
this chord in that key now you can play
these chords and you can get really
exotic this is gonna help you stimulate
your songwriting a lot faster because
you might you know you may like the
sound of major nine chords over just
regular major triads or a three note
chords you know like this chord a minor
versus an a minor nine you might find a
minor nine a little more exciting or
let's try D minor this D minor D F a you
might like the minor nine version a lot
better
it just sounds lush and jazzy so you can
use these chord codes for a lot it's not
just for making chords chord codes are
for solving problems it's for
identifying flaws in your chord
progressions is for you know there's a
lot of application for chord codes and
it's it's just a piece of the bigger
puzzle of music theory that we teach
right at busy works beats comm I just
wanted to make a quick video for you and
to let you know that the chord codes are
super super foul powerful so when you
get your chord codebook be sure to apply
these and it works great on piano
because it's mapped out in intervals
okay even intervals one at a time
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