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Well I got the toaster to work.
This chord book is a work in progress, There's more settings in this, (M7 dim aug) But I have two VERY basic ones (M and m) and one other abbreviated as "7".
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I've read up on all of my old forum posts, and I can not tell you all how grateful I am to have had your support and feedback in the past
Thanks everyone! Keep on composing :D
~Yuccatosis
EDIT: just to clarify my above sarcastic comment, chords are among the very basics anyone who composes music should know about. Just because it's news to you doesn't mean it's worth pointing out to everybody else. I, for one, didn't learn anything from this - and I don't think I'm alone in this situation.
A chord book, eh? This is even less than the basics; it's something in music that's supposed to be as instinctive as breathing to a newborn baby. It's not the basics of music; it's the basic of producing any sound in general... Including noise!
This said, it's all out of good intentions & there are many who should have a look at this (especially those who don't have a clue about the difference between actual music & noise). Sadly, those same people who have no clue about this also have no clue about how to teach/improve themselves; they'll undoubtedly ignore this & every other educational post on this forum anyways.
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Well I didn't learn anything from this, but if you want I can put some chords in there. I'd also like to point out that learning chords from a keyboard manual isn't...optimal; the most important thing to learn is how and when to use those chords.
Guys, let's hijack this and show him awesome metal chord progressions, or lovely impressionism :3
It's not finished, I have it memorized on the piano but can't transcribe it without a piano at hand. It keeps going down until it reaches DMMM9 and then loops nicely to the starting DMMMM11 the octave higher.
This isn't a bad concept at all, but it needs refinement.
A triad may begin on any of its three notes. A triad which begins on the root note is called a root chord. A triad which begins on the second note is called the first inversion. A triad which begins on the third note is called the second inversion.
Simply put, it's more important to illustrate the root and its inversions than to illustrate one of those in every key. I've added an FTM for illustration.
If you're fascinated with chords, the following album may be worth looking into:
[url=http://xirecords.org/123.shtml]click
well, yucca i applaud you for trying to improve yourself. you still have...a lot to learn but you're on the right track.
from here, i'd say learn the chords(triads) possible from the notes of a C major scale, and compose a song from (only)them...as a starting point. also build a melody with only the C major notes.
understand what a tonic is and why it's important, also understand what a dominant is and why it's important.
@gyms : I second that.
Yucca, by now you should know that a capital M is for major, and a lowercase m is for minor. However, major chords are "understood" so there is not usually anything after them, just the the root note by itself. With that in mind, these are the chords available within the C major scale:
C Dm Em F G Am Bdim
Try writing a song with (some of) those chords in it, with a melody made up of all natural notes (no sharps or flats (the C Major scale)). It will start to make sense.
Then you can try it in different keys.
@cak: I need to get that album! Sounds fascinating!
Moot
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My uncle told me once that if you can think it, you can play it. Try to hum songs to yourself and hit the right notes. All this music theory stuff is great to learn but you also need to train your brain to be able to hear when notes sound good or clash.
Start with a chord progression, figure out what key you're in, get a feel for what notes are in that key and what notes to avoid. Then listen to that chord progression until you can think of a melody. Then (and this is the hard part for me)put it down on famitracker before you forget it or it gets lost/muddled in translation between your brain and famitracker.
You should add some sections to the .ftm for augmented and diminished triads and the inversions. I wouldn't bother trying to learn seventh chords until you get the triads down tbh.
One thing I'd like to add, something that's hit me real hard lately, is the importance of understanding compositional techniques. In the end, technique is what creates interesting music, not theory(tho theory may help you develop techniques).
More specifically, yucca, you will notice that different kinds of music will come to you depending on what instrument you use to extract it. I write different songs using a piano than when I use a guitar. You should try to write songs on something other than FamiTracker, like piano or something, then translate it over to FT.
As far as theory goes, I realized for the first time recently how easy it is to write songs completely outside of the diatonic box with a guitar. My friend wrote a song that uses the progression G-B-C ... which boggled my mind! This progression doesn't fit inside any diatonic scale or mode...wtf how did he write something so complex yet so simple?? There is no diatonic progression, it's just a series of modulations that sound like a progression and has a rolling energy as a result. How the fuuuuu....
Oh yea, he wrote it on guitar. The major chord shape doesn't change, you just move the shape up and down the fretboard. hrmm
[quote=Xyz_39808]GM BM CM=
I V/ii VI/ii
A deceptive cadence while tonicizing a minor. [/quote]
Far-fetched, especially if the second degree never comes. Besides, I V/ii VI/ii would be more something like GM EM FM. What you have here is I V/vi VI/vi (B major being the dominant of E). Furthermore, let's not clutter this thread with overly technical stuff while the op is simply trying to learn major and minor chords.
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