Music Theory for Beginners - C Major Scale, Building Chords from a Scale

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Donate: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted;_button_id=GL3B7U2H45RD4 Email: michaelpitluk@gmail.com This video is part of my songwriting techniques series, where I give songwriting tips for beginners and advanced writers. Some of my songwriting techniques rely on a basic understanding of hot to build chords, piano music theory, guitar music theory, and the music theory about intervals. Basically, there are 7 notes in a scale such as C major. Each one of those 7 notes serves as the "root" note or the first note of a chord. For example: the seven notes in the C major scale are C D E F G A and B. That means there is a C chord, D chord, E chord, F chord, G chord, A chord, and B chord in the key of C major. The next question is, "What other notes are in those chords?" My video walks you through how to build these chords. First, each basic major or minor chord is made up of only 3 notes. These notes are 1, 3 and 5. What does this mean? Well, let's start with the C chord. As we said earlier, the C note in the C major scale serves as the "root" note of a chord in C major. Specifically, C serves as the "root" note for the C major chord. The next thing we do is count up from the C note 3 and 5. So starting with C as 1, we then count to 3. 2 would be D and 3 would be E. That means that E is also in C major. Then we count to 5. So since E is 3, then F is 4, and G would be 5. So the C chord is C, E, and G. This is C major. There are reasons why this is C major and C minor, but that is for a different video on intervals. For now, just take my word for it :) Let's try building the A chord in the key of C major. Just like building the C major chord, we start with A as the "root" note and let A be 1. Then we found to three starting with A as 1. So, since A is 1, B is 2 and C is 3. So, C is in the A chord. Finally, we go to the 5th note after A in the C major scale. So, since C is 3, D is 4 and E is 5. Therefore, the A chord is A, C, and E. This is A minor. The chords of C major are the following: 1. C major 2. D minor 3. E minor 4. F major 5. G major 6. A minor 7. B diminished Please like and subscribe if you found this video helpful! And please give feedback so I can make the videos as informative, comprehendible, and helpful as possible! Thanks! ========== SUBSCRIBE! http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwagS434ieZhHv1dCzaR4MA?sub_confirmation=1 LET'S CONNECT Website: http://www.michaelpitluk.com Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/michaelpitluk SoundCloud: http://www.soundcloud.com/michaelpitluk Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/michaelpitluk Instagram: michael_pitluk SnapChat: michael_pitluk Medium: https://medium.com/@MichaelPitluk LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelpitluk SUPPORT! Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/michaelpitluk SERVICES Song review: $20 (I cover top line, production and mixing) Vocal editing: $150 per song Mixing: $300 per song (no vocal editing) Custom mixing video: $600 per song (no vocal editing) Contact me through my site: http://www.michaelpitluk.com/contact/