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How To Analyze and READ Chord Charts
This lesson is sure to bring your confusion to an end. It’s important as bass players to be able to read and analyze chord charts before attempting to play them. If you want to learn about improvising or just get a great foundation to your theoretical knowledge please follow this lesson and take clean and clear notes.!We will be diving deeper into the subject very soon. As always if you have any questions don’t hesitate to reach out!
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Hi DB, are you effectively saying you look at ii V I across the piece of music? So, you find the shapes, more than working out the notes of each triad or mode?
If that’s what you mean, this does make sense to me.
Also, is the pattern here: ii V I
A D G; D G C; C F# B?
Like an overlapping ii V I, all the way through?
I need to go back to the modes lesson. I think that probably ties it all together.
Dominant 7ths were never explained well to me. I always think if you teach it well, it was probably taught well to you. I avoid this part of harmony (extended chords) but I need to understand it better.
OMG! I absolutely love this question. It tells me that your brain is working and on the right track. You have the right idea! just a little more I need to add in as a response. (You already know iHave to demonstrate this. Can’t wait to respond to this so you visually see what i mean, But in the short term……yes thats the right idea. They are like little hidden clusters of 2-5-1 movements within the piece and it happens in tons of songs. But the cool thing is that each of those notes still hold a mode to them…if that makes any sense….I’ll explain better like i always do in a video 😂 so be on the lookout for that soon. Awesome question Jenetta and great to hear from you
https://player.vimeo.com/video/764340474
Thanks very much.
This is great and it’s good for me to see that I had a little moment where it really clicked.
Hoping that with perseverance I continue to have these moments!
The chart created in red is so helpful for me (I don’t have that mathematical brain!). It makes perfect sense.
Also, of course it’s fine to share this wherever you’d like to.
Thank you 🙂
Hey Jenetta, I hope this is not too long of a response but you know how I am! Hope this helps. Hopefully you don’t mind…I’m going to address this to the Academy as well just because I think it’s such a great question. Talk soon
Thanks. Will look forward to that response! Keep posting, creating and explaining for us, as we are watching and learning… even if it’s sporadic and sometimes we can’t be here! Thank you 🙂
Will do!…… Thanks Jenetta, means a lot, you’re awesome