1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,130 [BLANK_AUDIO] 2 00:00:05,130 --> 00:00:08,240 You've already heard some of the chord names. 3 00:00:08,240 --> 00:00:10,350 That is what we call the triads, which 4 00:00:10,350 --> 00:00:13,000 are built up on different degrees of the scale. 5 00:00:13,000 --> 00:00:16,050 Let's take the scale of F-Major. 6 00:00:16,050 --> 00:00:19,940 [MUSIC] 7 00:00:19,940 --> 00:00:25,570 Where we've encountered the tonic, which is chord one. 8 00:00:25,570 --> 00:00:27,420 A dominant, which is chord five. 9 00:00:27,420 --> 00:00:29,260 [MUSIC] 10 00:00:29,260 --> 00:00:33,380 And the sub-dominant, which is chord four. 11 00:00:33,380 --> 00:00:36,330 As we hear these are all major triads. 12 00:00:36,330 --> 00:00:39,300 [MUSIC] 13 00:00:39,300 --> 00:00:42,020 And they're the three most common, in fact, 14 00:00:42,020 --> 00:00:45,450 some music is harmonized entirely by these three chords. 15 00:00:45,450 --> 00:00:55,450 [MUSIC] 16 00:00:58,280 --> 00:01:00,690 But as briefly mentioned before, the 17 00:01:00,690 --> 00:01:03,940 diatonic scale of course, contains seven notes. 18 00:01:03,940 --> 00:01:08,420 [MUSIC]. 19 00:01:08,420 --> 00:01:12,150 Back to the beginning, and a triad can be built on all of them. 20 00:01:13,160 --> 00:01:15,400 Not all the triads we find, will be major. 21 00:01:16,850 --> 00:01:19,070 But let's go up, and investigate them. 22 00:01:19,070 --> 00:01:22,740 First of all, sticking to the key of F, we've 23 00:01:22,740 --> 00:01:26,030 had the tonic, on the first degree of the scale. 24 00:01:27,050 --> 00:01:29,570 And then above the tonic. 25 00:01:29,570 --> 00:01:31,440 [MUSIC] 26 00:01:31,440 --> 00:01:36,670 >> Chord two is called the supertonic, because it's one step above the tonic. 27 00:01:36,670 --> 00:01:44,620 And as you'll hear, the triad is minor, with the notes G, B-flat, and D. 28 00:01:44,620 --> 00:01:47,700 We have to remember that the triads have to be 29 00:01:47,700 --> 00:01:50,950 made up of notes, which are part of the scale. 30 00:01:50,950 --> 00:01:54,190 [MUSIC] 31 00:01:54,190 --> 00:01:55,750 So it has to be one of those notes. 32 00:01:55,750 --> 00:02:00,550 So in this supertonic we have the G, B-flat, and D. 33 00:02:00,550 --> 00:02:05,500 Going up another step, the third degree of the scale is called the 34 00:02:05,500 --> 00:02:10,370 mediant, what we call chord iii, and its notes are A,C, and E. 35 00:02:10,370 --> 00:02:12,040 The sub-dominant we know. 36 00:02:12,040 --> 00:02:13,260 [MUSIC]. 37 00:02:13,260 --> 00:02:14,270 The dominant we know. 38 00:02:14,270 --> 00:02:15,670 [MUSIC]. 39 00:02:15,670 --> 00:02:21,870 And sub-mediant, chord six is another minor triad. 40 00:02:21,870 --> 00:02:26,130 In this case consisting of D, F, and A. 41 00:02:26,130 --> 00:02:28,800 The sub-mediant you remember is what we hear 42 00:02:28,800 --> 00:02:31,760 in the interrupted cadence that we talked about. 43 00:02:31,760 --> 00:02:36,350 [MUSIC] 44 00:02:36,350 --> 00:02:39,940 And then finally, in the context of F we have,. 45 00:02:39,940 --> 00:02:41,950 [MUSIC]. 46 00:02:41,950 --> 00:02:46,490 The final triad, which is built on seventh degree of the scale. 47 00:02:46,490 --> 00:02:49,920 [MUSIC] 48 00:02:49,920 --> 00:02:54,290 And which is a diminished triad as you'll hear, the 49 00:02:54,290 --> 00:02:58,670 notes are E, G and B flat, and that's chord seven. 50 00:02:58,670 --> 00:03:03,710 So to go up through all of these in 51 00:03:03,710 --> 00:03:09,870 F-Major, here we go chord one, two, 52 00:03:09,870 --> 00:03:15,660 three, four, five, six, seven. 53 00:03:15,660 --> 00:03:17,530 [MUSIC] 54 00:03:17,530 --> 00:03:18,990 >> And back to one. 55 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:24,210 Let's just try them in another key, here's C-Major. 56 00:03:24,210 --> 00:03:29,650 One, two, three, 57 00:03:29,650 --> 00:03:36,690 four, five, six, seven 58 00:03:36,690 --> 00:03:40,120 [MUSIC] 59 00:03:40,120 --> 00:03:40,170 And back to one.