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A minor scale + chords question
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| Mossy |
Can anyone please clarify that what I am doing here is correct:
Notes in A Minor
a, b, c#, d, e, f#, g#, a
(whole, whole, half, whole, whole, whole, half) - steps
meaning the relevent chords would be
a c# e
b d f#
c# e g#
etc? or am I way off? |
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| auujay |
It has been awhile since I took music theory.
I won't be able to give you a good answer but perhaps if you gave more info others could. What I mean is there are a few questions. Which minor scale are you doing? Are you going up or down in the scale?
But in reality if it sounds good you are golden :) |
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| auujay |
| I hate to be one of those bastards who comes on here and tell you to search for it but a quick googleing produces this link. I know it does not quite answer your chord question.... but hey, what do you want for nothing? :D |
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| State of Matter |
| Umm, A Minor has no sharps or flats. It's relative to C Major. |
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| auujay |
I think you are going wrong in your first assumption that:
Notes in A Minor
a, b, c#, d, e, f#, g#, a
(whole, whole, half, whole, whole, whole, half) - steps
I believe it is really (for natural minor which I believe is what you want):
whole, half, whole, whole, half, whole, whole
Your version is A Major. |
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| chrispitcha |
Mr Moss you NHS teaboy, I will lend you all my music theory notes next weekend.
Got loads of scales in there.
Root Chords, 1st Inversion, 2nd Inversion e.t.c..
Once you see a scale, you can work out a melody in that key straight away.
Peace,
Your Bitch. |
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| alanzo |
there are a lot more relevent chords in each scale then 3.. there are 8 chords in each scale.. I'm not sure how to determine them becuase I'm still learning that in my theory class :D
but here are the Minor Scales:
natural minor scale - whole - half - whole - whole - half - whole - whole
harmonic minor scale- whole - half - whole - whole - half - 1 1/2 (three steps) - half
melodic minor scale - whole - half - whole - whole - whole - whole - half - whole - whole - half - whole - whole - half - whole |
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| TranceZoner |
Hey I dont mean to be rude guys, but i don't understand the question...
It's all like fookin' Chinese to me.... |
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| alanzo |
| quote: | Originally posted by TranceZoner
Hey I dont mean to be rude guys, but i don't understand the question...
It's all like fookin' Chinese to me.... |
that's because you don't know any theory.. if you want to be a good producer, learning theory will be invaluable.. |
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| Tranc3 |
The A Minor Scale is sometimes also called the A Natural Scale (Or something to that effect), as it's just like the C Major scale in the sense that you only play the white keys on the keyboard.
So the A minor scale goes like this:
A, B, C, D, E, F, G
Simple:D |
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| Mossy |
forgive me, im a noob :)
Right, I see now looking back after a good long rest that I was confused. The notes I put up where the from the A Major scale, which is partly due to the method I was using being so confusing ... long story.
Auujay - cheers for the link, like I say I was seriously stressed this afternoon for various reasons and all my google searches came up with stuff about C minor, which was doing my head in further.
Pitcha - that would be appreciated. Less of the tea boy :)
So my next questions are:
Are the triads I wrote down earlier correct (for A major):
a c# e
b d f#
c# e g#
etc?
And am I right thinking a lot of trance melodies are in A minor?
Cheers all, this post has helped me a lot. |
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| alanzo |
most trance is in minor, whether or not it's in A minor I don't know..
but here's a link that will help you with chords and scales:
http://www.ocmusic.com/vpc.htm |
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