Hi Kirk,
I have a question, it’s about chords progression and scales.
I have a song of muse and he uses the chord b7. I have learned from you that it’s a chord with 4 tones. The tones must be 1 (root) 3, 5 and flat 7 ( I hope I’m right). The song is played in the key E (major). And now I was looking if I can find out how the chord was build up out of the scale. But I am not sure in witch scale I have to look. This is what I have:
Scale E (major):
E(1) f#(2) g#(3) A(4) B(5) c#(6) d#(7)
Scale B (major)
B(1) c#(2) d#(3) E(4) F#(5) g#(6) a#(7)
The chord b7 consist out (in this song)
B D# A B F#
B7
E |---------------|2--------------|---------------|2--------------|
B|--------0------|----0----------|--------0------|----0----------|
G|------------2--|--------2------|------------2--|--------2------|
D|----1----------|------------1--|----1----------|------------1--|
A |2--------------|---------------|2--------------|---------------|
E |---------------|---------------|---------------|---------------|
If I look into the scale of E than I’ll find this:
B(5) D#(7) A(4) B(5) F#(2)
But that’s a little bit strange cause it have to be a B(major)7
And if I look into the scale of B than I’ll find:
B(1) D#(3) A(Flat 7) B(1) F#(5)
So that’s the most logic situation.
So my question is: do you have to build a chord out of his own key scale (like here the B scale) ore do you have to build it from the key of the whole play (so that will be the E scale)
And an other question is: if I play the B7 chord it wants to resolve into the E chord. It’s asking for the E chord. How come??? If by my question before the answer is the scale of B, what kind of link do he has with the E chord. And if that answer is the scale of E, ok than I understand that he wants to go to his home (the E chord) the number 1 of the scale.
:?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?:
I hope I am clear with my question. I live in the Netherlands and my English is not very good. So if you don’t understand something feel free to ask
p.s I love your site, I learn a lot of your lessons so thank you very much.
