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A. I know a quick way to answer your question,
but it will require a small arts and crafts project on your part.
You need:
several sheets of cardboard or poster board
a pencil
a felt marker
a compass
a ruler
a protractor
a copper pin fastener
a pair of scissors.
Here's what you do:
1. With the compass, draw a circle on one sheet of cardboard or posterboard.
2. With the protractor and pencil, divide that circle into 12 slices of 30 degrees each.
3. With the scissors, cut the circle out.
4. With the felt marker, label those slices on the edge as C, G, d, A, E, B, F#, C#, Ab, Eb, Bb, F.
You have now finished making the Circle of Fifths.
5. Cut out another circle the same size as the Circle of Fifths.
Cut out peepholes for C, G, and E.
Draw an arrow pointing to the C.
With the felt marker, label this as "major."
6. Flip the major wheel over and try laying it on the Circle of Fifths.
You should be able to adjust it so that you see C, G, and Eb.
On this side also, draw an arrow pointing to the C.
Label this side "minor."
7. Make another wheel like the major wheel, only this time, cut another peephole for the Bb.
Again, draw an arrow pointing to the C.
Label this one "seventh."
8. For "diminished seventh," cut out peepholes for C, Eb, F#, and A, but don't draw any arrows.
This same chord can go all four ways.
9. For "augmented," the peepholes are at C, E, G#.
This chord can go all three ways.
To find a major chord, put the major wheel on top of the Circle of Fiths, fasten in the middle with the copper pin, and rotate.
Whatever the arrow is pointing to is the name of the major chord.
The same procedure serves for all the other chords.
For French sixths, the peepholes are at Ab, C, D, and F#.
For Italian sixths, the peepholes are at Ab, C, and F#.
For German sixths, you can use the wheel for sevenths.
But that's getting into advanced theory.
Can someone help me with jazz piano?
Q. I was classically trained, and I am very, very new to jazz piano notation. I've figured out how to do everything in the key of C, but when I get to a new key I am totally lost. For example, one of my pieces that I need to play is in the key of F. Some of the chords I encounter are:
C7(9#) Bb13(#11) F7(#9) D7(#9) Db7 C7
Please, whoever can help me... how do I play these chords in a key with one flat? What do I do to them to make them correct in this key? Please give me note names or help me understand what changes the chord goes through. Thank you, gracias, shukran, xie xie, mange tak, merci beaucup, and domo arigato in advance!!!!
A. Hello, Lightly...
As one of your posters told you, you can ignore the key if all you are playing is the chords (You actually have to forget that "B" is flat if you need to play "Db7" because the "7th" of Db is a B-natural!) But one also told you that "all the information you need is in the chord symbol." That is not true! It tells you nothing about the voicing, or position of the notes, in the chord.
To play by chord symbols, you need to learn a few conventions-- and these conventions can be different among composers! For instance, Db7 usually implies the flatted 7th tone of the Db major scale. If the composer wants you to play a "C" rather than a B-natural in that chord, he would note it as Dbmaj7. It is usually understood that chord degrees above the 7th (#9 and #13, for example) are "dominant" seventh chords and thus use the flatted 7th tone of the chord. If the composer wants otherwise, he is supposed to write "maj7".
How do you learn these conventions? There's no substitute to a lot of experience with playing from chord symbols--except to get someone to teach you! The proper voicing of chord can be a matter of taste.Or it can be a matter of importance if it clashes with the melody.
Coming from a classical background should make all this easy for you. The first thing you have to do is to translate all these chord symbols into all the keys! Once you do this, they are very easy to remember.
You do not tell us if you are playing solo, or with an ensemble, so it is difficult to be more exacting about it. Good luck.
What is a 7th chord?
Q. Not sure which kind of 7th it is, in my jazz music it says "C7". It is the solo section in "Basically Blues", the first measure, and I have know idea what to do! there are other chords in there and I can learn them if i knew what they were, like "Bmi7" or "G6". This is a really cool piece, and I can't wait to see how it turns out!
A. Another poster said it well when he called C7 a dominant chord. Since dominant chords and their scales occur naturally off the fifth scale tone of a major scale, C7 is the dominant of F, so the primary scale choice is a C scale which uses the notes from F major (including the Bb, which is the seventh of the root, C).
Philip U, I'll recommend using the chord syllabus to the foreword of the New Real Books; in it every conceivable chord is shown- including advanced notions like 9ths, 11th, 13ths, and even slash chords (sometimes used as an abbreviation for a 9sus chord). Almost all the examples use C as a root, so you would need to move patterns to the root shown in the chart. If at all possible, use a piano or even small keyboard (yes, even a Casio or other home portable will do, but be sure to transpose appropriately for your instrument) to develop your sense of intervals in both a visual and listening sense. For now, here are the spellings of the three examples you cited:
C7: C E G Bb
Bmi7 B D F# A (scale could be related to A, G, or D major - depends on other chords around it and/or the melody, if any)
G6 G B D E (could be related to G or D major- it's D major if any melody note is a C# instead of a C).
I hope I've been helpful; happy improvising to you!
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