The chord-scale system is a method of matching, from a list of possible chords, a list of possible scales. The system has been widely used since the 1970s...

Pijper scale. The twelve tones of the chromatic scale are covered by three disjoint diminished seventh chords. The notes from two such seventh-chords combination...

major scale, G is the fifth note of the scale, and the seventh chord built on G is the dominant seventh chord, G7 (shown above). In this chord, F is a...

Rottenberg/N 1987. Featuring "logical delibaration" for "harmonic major chord-scale system" cited in Haunschild (2000). "Harmonic Major : Part I — Arranging...

make it an eight tone scale. Having eight notes enables the primary chord tones to continuously fall on the on-beats when the scale is played sequentially...

centuries, began to feature the major and minor scale based tonal system and harmony, including chord progressions and circle progressions. It was in...

musical scales and modes. Degrees are relative to the major scale. Bebop scale Chord-scale system Heptatonic scale Jazz scale List of chord progressions...

improvising a solo may use scales that work well with certain chords or chord progressions, according to the chord-scale system. For example, in rock and...

The augmented seventh chord, or seventh augmented fifth chord, or seventh sharp five chord is a seventh chord composed of a root, major third, augmented...

the half-diminished scale built on C is associated with Cm7♭5, which functions as a iiø7 chord in minor (see chord-scale system). Arnold, Bruce (January...

It is used over a minor major seventh chord. See: chord-scale system. The scale also easily allows diatonic chord progressions, for example a I−vi−ii−V...

The augmented major seventh chord is associated with the augmented scale (see jazz scale and chord-scale system). This chord also comes from the third mode...

An altered chord is a chord that replaces one or more notes from the diatonic scale with a neighboring pitch from the chromatic scale. By the broadest...

classical and 20th-century music, and jazz (see chord-scale system). Of Glarean's six natural scales, three have a major third/first triad: (Ionian, Lydian...

and the incorporation of the major and minor scales as a basis for chordal construction. In jazz, chords are often arranged vertically in major or minor...

In music theory, chord substitution is the technique of using a chord in place of another in a progression of chords, or a chord progression. Much of...

circle. The scale may be used with minor or m+7 chords. See: chord-scale system. Chords that may be derived from the B Hungarian minor scale are Bm(maj7)...

chordal accompaniment to a line or melody: "Using chords and melodies together, making harmony by stacking scale tones as triads". A harmonized scale...

Scales are named after their tonics: for instance, the tonic of the C major scale is the note C. The triad formed on the tonic note, the tonic chord,...

The Nashville Number System is a method of transcribing music by denoting the scale degree on which a chord is built. It was developed by Neal Matthews...

seventh chord occurs naturally on the seventh scale degree of any major scale (for example, Bø7 in C major) and is thus a leading-tone seventh chord in the...

theory, an avoid note is a scale degree which is considered especially dissonant relative to the harmony implied by the root chord, and is thus better avoided...

VI chords always are minor chords and the VII always diminished, a further distinguishment is thought unneeded, see table for Major Diatonic scale below)...

In music, the mystic chord or Prometheus chord is a six-note synthetic chord and its associated scale, or pitch collection; which loosely serves as the...

In music theory, a major chord is a chord that has a root, a major third, and a perfect fifth. When a chord comprises only these three notes, it is called...

progressions which invite use of the melodic minor. Chord-scale system Jazz scale Mystic chord Scale of harmonics Vachaspati (raga) These may be approximated...

composition, a chord progression or harmonic progression (informally chord changes, used as a plural, or simply changes) is a succession of chords. Chord progressions...

A seventh chord is a chord consisting of a triad plus a note forming an interval of a seventh above the chord's root. When not otherwise specified, a...

played against a dominant seventh chord. The third of the dominant chord is the seventh degree of the scale. The chord was used in popular music as far...

Look up predominant chord in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In music theory, a predominant chord (also pre-dominant) is any chord which normally resolves...