Q. what are tonic and dominant notes??
what are v7 chords??
how can you tell if a chord is dominant or tonic??
what is the difference b/w finger positions, scales, and chord??
what are cadences??
extra info about tonic and dominant would be nice.
i just want to get what the theory is about and understand it.
A. The tonic note is the first note of a scale, the dominant note is the 5th note of the scale. In the key of C these would be C and G respectively. Each step of the scale has a name: 1-tonic, 2-supertonic, 3-mediant, 4-subdominant,5-dominant, 6-submediant,7-leading tone, 8-tonic (at the octave).
V7 chords are 4 note chords built in thirds on the 5th (or dominant) step of the scale. In C this would be: G,B,D,F. Again, a chord built on the tonic note is the tonic chord (in C - C,E,G) , built on the dominant note it is the dominant chord.
Cadences are like punctuation in sentences, some create a pause like a comma and others create a full stop like a period. There are a number of named variants depending on chords used and which chord notes are in the soprano and bass voices.
check here for more theory help:
http://library.thinkquest.org/15413/theory/theory.htm
http://www.musictheory.halifax.ns.ca/lessons.html
(This is a series of compact theory lessons, some with audio examples. You will have to scroll down a little over half way down the page to locate them.)
http://www.dolmetsch.com/ourresources.htm
(Click on the music theory/history link. This site is more involved and detailed than the others. This site also has a music dictionary which will clearly explain the terms and concepts you are asking about.)
Edit: Good call Malcolm. I had forgotten about the Ricci Adams site.
Musician, composer, teacher.
Could someone explain piano chords and how to play in different keys on piano?
Q.
A. Not really. Not in the one page supplied by yehoo to answer you. It took me YEARS to learn all that sort of stuff, but I'll give you the basics.
Scale is another word for climb, so all you doing is starting on that letter of the alphabet and walking through every letter of the alphabet until you reach the next note of the same name. So if you were playing a C scale youd start on C and walk through all the other notes without missing any out until you reach the next C. D scale means start on D and walk to the next D.
Chord actually means strings. Originally music was written out for choirs, choirs use their vocal chords and the word chord was used to say this bunch of people are going to sing this note and that bunch wil sing that note and the last bunch will sing that note. Chords are also sometimes called TRIADS because in their most basic form there are three notes in them.
The easiest explanation is PLAY ONE MISS ONE.
So, if you were playing a C chord you would play C, miss the D then play the E and miss the F and play the G. C=C E G
Scales are play everything
Chords use the FIRST, THIRD and FIFTH notes from the scale that they are named after.
If you want to know all your scales order this book SIMPSONS SCALE MANUAL
Its a technical book that has absolutely everything in it
If you want a book that explains chords to you then order a book called a PIANO CHORD DICTIONARY
All scales are the same as each other. When you start playing them you'll see what I mean. So learn ONE really well before you start the next and they'll be easy.
There are five hundred and fifty chords altogether used in music but at the basic level they all do the same thing as each other. Asking us to tell you how to do them all isn't possible.
Not on one page anyway. Get those two books and you can thank me later.
All the best
Cat
How to read guitar chord names?
Q. I'm a pianist trying to read notations for guitar chords. Chords like Asus2, Asus2/F#, Dsus2, Bmadd11, are totally puzzling to me. What do "sus", "add" mean? Is there any website I can go to, to find out these things?
A. The abbreviation, sus, means sustain; that is, place emphasis on that particular note needing to be sustained. In example, Csus4 simply directs the player to press down the F note directly above Middle C (on the guitar) because F is the fourth note on the diatonic scale of C. (It's the F note found in the first space of the treble clef.) (Another note: Middle C on the guitar is one full octave below that of the piano's Middle C, hence my statement of the F note being in the first space of the treble clef.)
The Asus2/F# chord tells us to play a B note (the sustained 2nd note) with an A chord, but also include its natural sixth note (F#) as the bass.
The chord, Bm add 11 simply means to add the 11th note of the Bm scale, which is the note of E to your chord formation.
Here is a striking chord that could be played just before playing a D major: Dsus2#5. Simply play a D, a Bb, another D, and an E.
Note: Look for those small, quick incidental notes on the grand staff; they should be those sustained notes or added notes to the chord mentioned.
Note: I stand corrected by Left-T. Such a note described as "sus" means 'suspension' as my music dictionary describes. It is a term used in harmony to describe a note in a chord that is held while another note that forms a discord with it is sounded. I had termed such a note as sustained because it always rings out in discord with the formed chord.
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