Q. In piano, the root chord is I, the first inversion is I 6, and the second inversion is I 6/4. What's the inversions for V?
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What about a V7 chord?
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A. For the V chord it would be the same so V, V6 , V6/4
Since there are four notes in a V7 chord it would be V7, V6/5, V 4/3, V 4/2.
Hope that helps!
Music chord progression "phone number"?
Q. My music theory teacher in high school taught us a chord progression or harmonic progression or something with intervals. Anyway, it was chords (we were talking piano at the time) that you could play after each other and it would sound good. He called it a "phone number" because it had 7 digits. Any idea what order the numbers go in.
A. You don't need seven chords to make a nice sounding chord progression. In fact, some of the most intense progressions (IMO, of course) have only two chords (i-V). I'm assuming that by "numbers" you mean the roman numeral notation for a chord? Here's a quick (ok -- a little long) lesson just to make sure (disregard if you already know this stuff):
In 12 TET (read: all western music), the most basic unit is the pitch. We combine these pitches to make scales. We know what pitches to use in these scales based on tradition (most of it is based on ancient Greece), but also based on aesthetic intrigue. In the simplest terms -- for our application here -- a scale is 7 notes with a distinct interval strucure of whole steps (A to B) and half steps (A to Bb).
I'm just gonna show you how we derive chords from the major scale, but this is the same process for every scale (it's called tertian harmony).
Major Scale:
1(w) 2 (w)3(h)4(w) 5(w)6(w)7
C(w)D(w)E(h)F(w)G(w)A(w)B
What we do to harmonize the major scale is stack "3rds." A 3rd is an interval between two notes. For our purposes, think of it as taking every other note from a scale.
I-C,E,G,B
ii-D,F,A,C
iii-E,G,B,D
IV-F,A,C,E
V-G,B,D,F
vi-A,C,E,G
vii-B,D,F,A
Traditionally we use upper case roman numerals for major chords and lower case for minor chords.
So a progression is just an arrangement of these chords that does something. Most always this function is to create or resolve tension in the piece. Again, for our very watered down version here all you need to worry about is the V chord. The V chord creates the tension (it's called the "dominant," and the entire progressionis usually arranged around it). It makes the audience want to hear the I (or i) chord again. So just as easily as you created the tension by playing the V chord, you resolve the tension by playing the I (or i) -- this is called the "tonic" or "tonal center."
So a progression has three parts: the tonic, the pre-dominant, and the dominant.
The most common progression that has these three parts is a I-IV-V progression (don't forget to bring it back to the I to resolve the tension).
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Here's some nice, very simple chord progressions. The beauty of the roman numerals is that they work with ANY major scale. Just do what we did above there with C major and knock yourself out.
I-IV-V
I-vi-IV-V
ii-V-I
I-V-vi-V
I-V-vi-iii-IV-I-IV-V
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(Just an aside, a "chord progression" and a "harmonic progression" are the same thing. You might have been confusing "succession," which is just an arrangement of chords. Progressions are successions with intention (i.e. you want the chords to FUNCTION).
Finger placement and some chord help on piano?
Q. I'v never played piano before (I have played guitar) and I wanted to play this song called "Pencils in the Wind (Sello Tape)" by Flight of the Conchords. I checked forums and found the chords according to this post:
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just mess around with these chords .........
G ........... G/F#........... Em ............ Em7
Am .............. Am/G# ........... Am/F# ............ Gm ...................(REPEAT)
on the last Gm you can do the little run down ........Bb Bb A G
on the brown paper bit the chords are like this .........
G ................ G/F# ............. Em ............ Em7
C .............. D ............... C ............ D .
thats it
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What keys do i hit for chords like G/F#. I don't get it. Online chrds have nothing on the slash chords and i don't know which keys to press for them.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks
A. Don't confuse yourself about the chord's notation. Just press:
the G chord: G-B-D
and F# note, NOTE not chord, on the left: F# (because if you press the whole F# chord, it will sound very terrible)
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