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It's also possible to play in minor keys and here are some common minor keys and chords: Chords in the key of A minor: Am, C, Dm, Em, F and G (you can substitute D for Dm and E for Em) Chords in the key of E minor: Em, G, Am, Bm, C and D (you can substitute A for Am and B for Bm)
Triad & seventh chords in A minor for songwriters and composers writing music in the key of A minor. Natural, harmonic and melodic scales.
In this lesson we’re going to go through the process of building minor scale chords, which follows the same process as the major scale. The point of this process is to establish all the chords which are diatonic to the minor key. This is the basis of understanding and creating chord progressions.
One common chromatic alteration in minor keys is raising the leading tone (the seventh scale degree) to a sharp. In A minor, this means raising G to G♯. This creates a stronger sense of resolution to the tonic and is often used in the dominant chord (the chord built on the fifth scale degree). .
If you had to put all chord types in two buckets, one bucket would be Major chords, the other would be minor chords. The minor chord contains the root note, flat 3rd (b3) and 5th of the Major scale. Here is a list of common ways to play the minor chord in all 12 keys.
In this article, we’ll look at how to harmonise the minor scale to get these chords, different minor scale chord progressions and some examples in different minor keys on guitar. Chords in All Minor Keys
Minor chords are together with the major chords the most important chords to learn for guitarists. This chord type consists of a root note, a minor third and a fifth. The minor third and the fifth are theoretical names and nothing you must commit to memory.
