Re: Question about chords

ja m wrote:
I know this may sound silly but how do u find out which notes chords are
made up of? Didnt find any info in the books i have.

jam

Here's the notes in the key of C Major:

C D E F G A B C

1) A Major chord is made of the first, third and fifth notes, i.e. C, E and G.

Let's try A Major - the notes are:

A B C# D E F# G# A

So the major chord is A, C# and E.


2) A minor chord has a flat third, so A Minor is A, C and E, and C Minor is C, Eb and G.


3) A seventh chord is a major chord with a flat seventh added on, so C7 is C, E, G and Bb. Similarly, A7 is A, C#, E and G


4) A powerchord (A5, C5 etc) is the first and the fifth - no third, so it's neither major nor minor. To fill the sound out, you can repeat the first note an octave higher, as an eighth. So A5 will be A, D and another A, and C5 will be C, F and another C.

-Alan
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