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Guitar Music Theory

Episode 13 Scale Formulas and Renumbering Chord Progressions

Guitar Music Theory

Desi Serna

Arts, Music, Performing Arts

4.6931 Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2017

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

In this free guitar lesson you take a look at the interval structure of the different modes of the major scale and how musicians would number chord progressions that are modal. This involves naming the tonic pitch in a mode "1" and then numbering its other pitches from there with consideration given to any change in interval structure like sharp and flat degrees. Taught by Desi Serna of http://GuitarMusicTheory.com.

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0:00.0

You're going to. Oh, Welcome to the guitar music theory

0:29.0

podcast. I'm Desi Cerna, author of Frontboard Theory, Guitar Picking Mechanics, Guitar Theory for Dummies, and more.

0:37.0

This podcast features free guitar lessons that focus on music theory for guitar, including guitar scales, chords,

0:44.2

progressions, modes, composition techniques,

0:47.3

improvisation, and more.

0:49.6

The lessons are geared toward intermediate level players on a.

0:53.0

You can follow along on either an acoustic or electric guitar.

0:57.0

Bass players can take away a look at the interval

1:11.6

structure of the different modes of the major

1:13.6

scale and how musicians would re-number chord progressions that are modal.

1:18.9

This lesson is based on my book fretboard, Volume 2, Chapter 2. Hi, I'm Desi Cerna, author of fretboard theory and fretboard theory volume two.

1:46.7

In this free guitar lesson, we're going to take a look at renumbering scales, chord progressions, and modes, plus comparing scales and their different

1:57.0

interval structures.

1:58.9

In the first fretboard theory, the Red Book, I always identified chord progressions relative to the parent major key regardless

2:06.2

of which chord was functioning as the tonic for example if the progression was in

2:11.1

mixylidian mode the tonic cord was still identified

2:15.0

as the five cord rather than renaming it, the one cord.

2:20.6

I identified the cord progressions in this manner to show you how the same major scale patterns and chords are used for the different modes.

2:28.0

But in fretboard theory volume 2, you look at how to renumber cord progressions from the tonic cord and make comparisons

2:36.4

of the cords to major and minor keys.

2:41.0

I'm going to walk you through this process right now using the G major scale.

2:47.0

So here's the G major scale.

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