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Musical Scale Finder and Key Finder. Enter some of the notes you want or even a chord or two. This tool will find the scales compatible with your inputs. Use them to find the right scales for soloing or to complete your melody, harmony or chord progression.
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Specifically, I’m looking at the keys of C, G, D, A, and E major. In my experience of almost 25 years of guitar playing, these are the five keys that 95% of all pop/rock/folk/country songs are going to use. Learn the common chords in each, and you’ll get a ton of mileage you can apply to your guitar playing.
View these notes on the fretboard using my Fret Monster web tool — just select major scale in the key of C. Learn how the notes in each major scale are determined in my Practical Music Theory course. Chords in This Key. Here's the six chords you'll use most often in this key.
An interactive music theory cheat sheet with scales, diatonic chords, notes on the piano, notes on the staff and key signature for all major and minor keys.
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- Quick Method to Figure Out Chords in A Key
- Harmonizing The Minor Scale
- Chords in A Key Chart
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Let’s use the key of C as an example and figure out all of the chords that fit in that scale. The ‘key of C’ uses the C Major Scale(link to scale resources). To figure out what chords are used in a scale, we need to know what notes are in that scale. The notes in the C Major Scale are: C D E F G A B If you want to be able to figure out what notes a...
Let’s go through another scale as practice. The key of G uses the G Major Scale(link to scale resources) The G Major scale uses the notes: G A B C D E F# We can use the same pattern as shown in the earlier example to figure out what chords fit in the key of G. Try figuring out all the chords in that key on your own before continuing. Here is the G ...
Don’t worry if the theory seems overwhelming at first. Once you get used to the pattern used in the two examples above, you’ll get the hang of it. Here’s a different way of looking at what type of chords are used in a key. If you compared the chords in the C Major Scale and G Major Scale, you might have noticed that the order of the chords stay the...
All of the above information explains how to figure out the chords in a Major Scale. But we can use a similar method to figure out the chords in a minor scale. We can use the same note skipping pattern to figure out what chords fit in a minor scale. Let’s go through an example with the C minor scale, which uses the notes: C D Eb F G Ab Bb Here is t...
Once you learn how to use the methods explained above, you’ll be able to easily figure out the main seven chords from any key. In the meantime, the below chart gives you a quick way to find the chords in any Major scale: If you want to find the chords used in any minor scale, you can find the relative minor scale by looking at the sixth note in any...
To find the main chords used in a Major scale, the order starting from the root note will be Major, minor, minor, Major, Major, minor, diminished. To find the main chords used in a minor scale, the order starting from the root note will be minor, diminished, Major, minor, minor, Major, Major. Alternatively, you can look at the notes used in the sca...
The guitar key chart below describes the chords belonging to the major keys. The top row of the chart lists the intervals and qualities of the chord. Uppercase numerals represent major chords while lowercase represent minor chords. Download the Guitar Chord Keys Chart for the Major Keys PDF.
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The chords associated with the C major scale are C major, D minor, E minor, F major, G major, A minor, B diminished. In other words, every note in the scale is associated with a chord. The chord structure for the major scale is the same for all keys.
