Building Chords out of scales

How do you build chords out of scales? And scales from chords not power chords but actual chords.

Take a look at the lessons page,
http://www.all-guitar-chords.com/guitar_lessons.php

There is my lesson on triads (Major, Minor, Augmented, Diminished),
http://www.all-guitar-chords.com/lesson.php?id=28

and Guitarslinger has a quick look at major and minor
http://www.all-guitar-chords.com/lesson.php?id=14

On your lesson Kicknguitar The p1 is the base note of the chord correct? And that should determine the tone of the chord...? So could triads also be known as power chord or is it a totally different thing.

Also are the chords played in the Hanger 18 intro triads and is he playing arpegios between the intro and the verse

A Perfect 1st is the tonic. It is not always the bass note of a chord. But don't fret about that until later. If you have a chord that says Emin, the bass note is the tonic (what note it says in the front, "E" in this case). If the bass note is not the tonic, the chord name slightly changes (i.e. G is the "Bass note," G/Emin)

I didn't do a lesson per se on what are diads or any other chord besides triads but Triads are three different interval chords. Triads may have two M3 or four P1 but as long as it follows the formula (1-3-5) they are triads.
Here Chcrush. If you can use the major scale to figure out chords (if not that's fine, keep working at theory, it'll come), Tell me what intervals are in a "G Power chord."
(Use the Major scale starting on the root, which in this case is G, third fret)

"G Power Chord"

E|-----||

B|-----||

G|-----||

D|--5--||

A|--5--||

E|--3--||

As a hint if you can't get it, this Power chord used two of one of the intervals.

Got them? If you were able to dissect it fully, you should have found a P1, a P5 and P1(P8). This has only two different intervals, instead of three, so it can not be a triad. Two note chords are known as Diads.

If you had trouble with understanding how to find the intervals, don't worry about diads and triads, just learn how to use the major scale to find intervals in Root position chords.

chcrush, I don't have the tab in front of me but some of the intro chords from Hanger 18 are definitely triads the first is a Dmin, and the piece in between do contain arpeggios.

Incase you are, Don't get confused that triads are only 3 notes. They contain 3 different intervals but may have multiple notes of each interval. An open E Major chord can contain 6 notes but only have three different intervals The intervals that make up a major chord, a major triad. P1 M3 P5.

Hope this helps you out in someway or another if not all together.

OK So It doesen't deal the number of notes played it is the numaber of tones played so a diad like the one above contains two of the same notes just different octaves and it can have two of the strings playing the same note just on a different degree. As long as they are in the same scale.

Where you have a split chord such as this, it is always written with the chord name first, followed by the bass note, i.e. Em/G

Afro

Tight Thx

You would think that I would know this stuff because both my parents are majors in Music at UCI.

Woops, I rarely right out those inversions. Thanks for the catch Afro.

Haha, we all start somewhere chcrush

hehe thanks for the help everyones giving me and since guitarslinger hasn't answered my question in scales can either of you take a look? Thx in advance.

don't be afraid to ask your parents about this theory stuff. you'll be likely to get information we might not be able to provide.

hey man, sorry i didnt answer your question. I'm not sure where you posted the question.

Depends on what you're trying to achieve out of the scale.

Basics for these individual scales:

http://www.all-guitar-chords.com/lesson.php?id=123

High Beginner - Low Intermediate:

www.all-guitar-chords.com/lesson.php?id=138

Remember, Arpeggios (sweeps) are chords!

www.all-guitar-chords.com/lesson.php?id=136

That should help you out for now.

Hi to all!

I suggest you learn the intervals, in chords and scales as well.
In an attempt to shed some light on the subject, let me just share with you a few examples I used in response to a similar need in another thread of this forum: Sometimes a scale will match or go along with all the notes in your chord progression.- Ex A - Other times you will see that more than one scale will be needed to match or go along with all notes in the progression. For example: One scale for the first two chords in a 5 chord progression and another scale over the other three chords as in Ex B - And sometimes you will even have to use a scale for only one chord of the progression as in Ex C.

Ex.A

Chord Progression: C Am Dm G

C = R 3 5 = C E G goes along with C Major Scale: C,D,E,F,G,A,B
Am = R b3 5 = A C E goes along with C Major Scale: C,D,E,F,G,A,B
Dm = R b3 5 = D F A goes along with C Major Scale: C,D,E,F,G,A,B
G = R 3 5 = G B D goes along with C Major Scale: C,D,E,F,G,A,B

Ex.B

Chord Progression: C Dm E A B

C Dm -- C Major Scale: C,D,E,F,G,A,B
E A B -- E Major Scale: E,F#,G#,A,B,C#,D#

E = E,G#,B
A = A,C#,E
B = B,D#,F#

Ex.C


Chord Progression: G Cm D

G = G,B,D -- G Major Scale
D = D,F#,A -- G Major Scale
Cm = C,Eb,G -- Bb Major Scale

G Major Scale = G,A,B,C#,D,E,F#,
Bb Major Scale = Bb,C,D,Eb,F,G,A

Note:For each one of these situations there are other scales that may work as well.

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In the most basic sense:

->Chords and scales are **one and the same, in a very practical sense and serve a common goal—the treatment of sound within a space.

-> Think of a Scale as an 'outline' of the chord(s) it contains—a 'chord in motion' so to speak.

-> Conversely; imagine a Chord as a 'static representation of a scale'(or scales).

(**This is why many Jazz(etc) musical-biographies and studies mention, for the sake of this post, Miles Davis playing Chords on his Trumpet)


RAWK!
Cs

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