Today we’re talking about the C Sharp or Db (flat) chord and the key of C sharp or Db major. “The compositions and popular songs written in this key show it to have a strong romantic tendency, in a double sense it was popular during the Romantic Era, and today it’s the key of many of our most adored love songs.” We now bring you another article in our “Chord of the Week” series, where we share a new guitar chord, exploring its history, its relevance, how it’s played on the guitar, its major scale, some common chord progressions, and a few popular songs in its key.
Chords and Common Chord Progressions in the Key of Db Major.Theory and Practice: The Pattern of the Db Major Scale Explained.The Db Major Chord Position on the Guitar: It’s Complicated….C Sharp or Db Major History Lesson: Romantic Composers and Their Strange Love of Black Keys.* The 7-chord functions a little differently from the other six. Īdding a note a 3rd above each triad produces the following “seventh” chords: Break them up and play them over the track. The triads built on the 7 different notes of the scale are landmarks in the Key of Db. Hear and feel more clearly the difference between major 3rds and minor 3rds by playing chromatically between each 3rd. Some are MINOR (m) 3rds - 3 half-steps apart. These thirds look the same, but they don’t sound the same! Some are MAJOR (M) 3rds - 4 half-steps apart. Make sure you hold each half-note for two whole beats.
In exercise Db5, play the broken thirds of the G scale. The distance from bottom note to top note of each triad is a 5th. You can see that the diatonic triads we played in the “intervals” section each consist of two 3rds, one on top of the other. On the staff, 3rds and 5ths always look like the examples shown here. Getting familiar with chords in the Key of Db
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