Intervals and Chords - Part 2

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Musicianship: Chord Charts, Diatonic Chords, and Minor Keys

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Berklee College of Music

Musicianship: Chord Charts, Diatonic Chords, and Minor Keys

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Cours 2 sur 4 dans Specialization Developing Your Musicianship

After a tremendous response from learners on Coursera, Berklee Online has created a Developing Your Musicianship specialization, and this course is the second course in the series. If you have a basic knowledge of music theory or if you have completed Developing Your Musicianship I, this course will continue to help you understand key musical concepts, enabling you to create and perform contemporary music. Taught by Berklee College of Music professor George W. Russell, Jr., the course includes four lessons that delve into the next level of harmony and ear training. The course will introduce you to new key signatures, including minor tonalities, and how they are constructed. You will train your ear to hear minor intervals and 7th chords. You will learn how to build 7th chords, and how to build common chord progressions. You will also learn the major pentatonic scale and how to construct melodies using this scale. The course culminates with an assignment that asks you to compose and perform an 8-measure composition using popular chord progressions and the Major pentatonic scale. Just like Developing Your Musicianship I, the course is designed to impart the joy of creating music and sharing it with others.

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Lesson 2

In this lesson, we will explore diatonic 7th chords in the key of G major and F major. We will learn four new popular chord progression using diatonic triads. We will continue to train our ears, reviewing the intervals and chords from the previous lesson while adding minor 6th and 7th intervals and the dominant 7th chord.

Diatonic Triads and 7th Chords in F Major5:02

Popular Chord Progressions Using Diatonic Triads7:26

Intervals and Chords - Part 27:39

Lesson 2 Ear Training Practice6:48

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George W. Russell, Jr.
Professor
Harmony/Piano

[MUSIC]

Now comes a little ear training.

What again is ear training?

Train your ear to recognize what it's hearing.

When we're last together, we dealt with two intervals,

the minor second, [SOUND] And the minor 3rd.

[MUSIC]

So I'm going to play a note and I want you to sing the minor second.

[MUSIC]

That's it.

Here's another one first note.

[MUSIC]

Very nicely.

All right now we're going to do a Minor Third.

Here's the first note.

[MUSIC]

There we go.

[SOUND] Minor Third.

There's the next one.

[MUSIC]

[SOUND] There we go.

Hm, hm, minor, third.

All right.

Today's intervals, the minor sixth, and the minor seventh.

First of all, the minor sixth.

If we're in the key of F, there's an F.

We go up a sixth, which is a D.

[SOUND] Come down a half step, [SOUND] the minor six.

So we have the [SOUND] F [SOUND] to D-flat.

That's your minor six.

[SOUND] La, la, minor six.

Repeat that after me, okay?

La, la, minor six.

[SOUND] Here in your

ear the minor six.

Lala, minor six.

Okay, let's start it on other note.

So, we'll start here, la la minor 6.

[MUSIC]

la la minor 6.

[MUSIC]

That's your minor sixth.

La, la.

Now the minor seven is a little different.

If we started on f, f equals root, seventh is e,

flat is seventh, you have the flat seven.

So you have the minor seven La la minor seven.

La la minor seven.

You say it. [MUSIC]

La la minor seven.

[MUSIC]

[SOUND] Let's start on a different note.

How about this guy, here?

[SOUND] D flat.

Minor seventh would be B flat.

La, la, minor seventh, you sing?

[SOUND] La, la, minor seventh.

[SOUND]

[MUSIC] La, la,

minor [SOUND]

six, right,

good job.

So we have the minor six [SOUND].

And the minor seven [SOUND] intervals.

So that's four intervals we've covered so far.

Minor second, minor third, minor sixth, the number seven.

Okay, when we were last together we talked about the major seven and the minor seven,

and being able to hear them, to orally recognize those two chords.

You have the major seven.

It's an, kind of a light, happy sound, if you will.

[MUSIC]

Minor seven.

Kind of a darker, richer sound.

[MUSIC]

Major.

[MUSIC]

Minor.

[MUSIC]

Major.

[MUSIC]

Minor.

[MUSIC]

[SOUND] Today, I'd like to talk about the dominant seventh chord.

Now, the dominant seventh chord is really, really significant,

because it has this, [SOUND] what we call a tritone in it.

There's the flat seven, the three, and a five.

That's our 735, so that dominant chord has a little tension in it.

[SOUND] Makes you feel like you want to resolve it.

It's a tension field chord,

now tension is created by [SOUND] these two notes, they call it a Tritone.

Tritone, because they are.

[MUSIC]

Three steps away from each other, tritone,

[MUSIC]

So that dominant chord always has a little tension in it.

[MUSIC]

That's dominant.

Major.

[MUSIC]

kind of happy sounding.

[MUSIC]

Dominant, got the tension in there.

[MUSIC]

Dominant is a chord that you find a lot in the blues.

[MUSIC]

Dominant.

Dominant has tension.

Minor, a little darker, a little warmer.

Major, a little brighter.

[MUSIC]

Then Major, [SOUND].

Dominant [SOUND].

Minor, [SOUND].

Okay?

Those are the three types of seventh chord that we need to early identify,

we need to hear, okay?

So, what would this be, major, minor or dominant?

[MUSIC]

Right, major, how about this one?

[MUSIC]

That would be minor, yes, how about this one?

[MUSIC]

It was minor.

Let's do another one.

How about

[MUSIC]

I just gave it away.

[MUSIC]

Dominant.

Attention between the triton

[MUSIC]

Dominant

[MUSIC]

Here we go, guys.

There are three seventh chord that you have to know are early.

We have to be able to identify the major seventh, minor seventh, dominant seventh.

Major seventh has a more a lighter sounds, if you will.

Minor seventh has a darker.

I like to think more richer sound.

And then you have your dominant chord,

where that tension is created by that tri tone that I explained.

Okay?

All right.

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