The ONLY chords you NEED to know
Summary
TLDRCe script de vidéo révèle les fondamentaux de la composition musicale à la guitare. Il explique que, contrairement à la croyance populaire, il n'est pas nécessaire de connaître un grand nombre de cordes pour écrire de la musique. Au lieu de cela, se concentrer sur une petite sélection de cordes majeures, mineures et diminuées, qui se répandent dans toutes les clés, permet de créer une variété presque infinie de progressions de cordes. Le script propose une approche structurée basée sur le cercle des quintes, montrant comment les cordes se rapportent les unes aux autres et comment les utiliser pour écrire des mélodies attrayantes et cohérentes.
Takeaways
- 🎼 Les musiciens débutants ou expérimentés peuvent apprendre à écrire des chansons avec une compréhension approfondie des accords de base.
- 🎸 L'adage 'Trois accords et la vérité', attribué à Harlan Howard, suggère que de nombreux morceaux peuvent être créés avec seulement les accords I, IV et V d'une tonalité.
- 📚 Les accords I, IV et V sont appelés ainsi en raison de leur position sur l'échelle, et varient selon la clé musicale considérée.
- 🔍 Il y a plus de trois accords à apprendre pour éviter la limitation dans la composition, bien que de nombreux morceaux célèbres reposent sur ces trois accords.
- 🎹 Les accords sont construits à partir d'une échelle en combinant des notes à intervalles réguliers, formant une série d'accords pour chaque tonalité.
- 📉 Il est possible de réduire considérablement le nombre d'accords à apprendre en éliminant les redondances entre les clés musicales.
- 🔄 Une fois les accords redondants éliminés, on se retrouve avec 36 accords fondamentaux : 12 majeurs, 12 mineurs et 12 diminués.
- 🌐 L'organisation des accords dans un cercle des quintes met en évidence les relations entre les accords adjacents et facilite la composition de progressions d'accords.
- 🎵 Les accords mineurs et les accords diminués peuvent être ajoutés au cercle des quintes pour élargir la palette harmonique disponible pour la composition.
- 🛠️ Apprendre à jouer ces accords et à comprendre leurs relations est plus important que de simplement apprendre des positions de doigts sur la guitare.
- 📈 Le diagramme du cercle des quintes offre une vision globale des accords, montrant non seulement comment jouer chaque accord, mais aussi comment ils s'associent logiquement pour créer des progressions.
Q & A
Pourquoi est-il important de connaître les accords de base pour écrire des chansons sur la guitare ?
-Connaître les accords de base permet de créer des progressions d'accords significatives qui sonnent bien, en se basant sur la théorie musicale derrière ces accords.
Quel est le sens de l'expression 'Tous ce dont vous avez besoin, ce sont trois accords et la vérité' ?
-Cette expression signifie que les paroles doivent être honnêtes et raconter une histoire reconnue, et que les trois accords fondamentaux (1, 4, 5) dans une clé donnée peuvent servir de base à de nombreuses chansons.
Combien d'accords forme le jeu de base pour jouer des chansons sur la guitare selon le script ?
-Le jeu de base comprend 36 accords : 12 accords majeurs, 12 accords mineurs et 12 accords diminués.
Quels sont les accords génériques (1, 4, 5) dans la clé de C ?
-Les accords génériques (1, 4, 5) dans la clé de C sont les accords C majeur, F majeur et G majeur.
Comment les accords sont-ils construits à partir de l'échelle de C ?
-Pour construire des accords à partir de l'échelle de C, on combine chaque note alternative en groupes de trois, en commençant sur chaque degré d'échelle ou intervalle.
Pourquoi les accords répétés sont-ils inutiles pour apprendre à jouer de la guitare ?
-Les accords répétés sont inutiles car ils représentent les mêmes harmonies dans plusieurs clés, ce qui rend la mémorisation superflue et peut être confus pour le joueur débutant.
Quelle est la meilleure façon d'organiser les accords pour faciliter la composition de progressions d'accords ?
-Organiser les accords dans un cercle des quintes, où les accords adjacents montrent des relations proches, aide à comprendre les progressions d'accords et à écrire de la musique plus facilement.
Comment le cercle des quintes aide-t-il à écrire des chansons plus variées ?
-Le cercle des quintes permet d'inclure les accords mineurs et diminués en plus des accords majeurs, offrant ainsi une palette plus large d'harmonies pour la composition.
Quels sont les avantages de se concentrer sur les accords de base au lieu de tous les accords possibles ?
-Se concentrer sur les accords de base rend la tâche plus gérable, révèle les motifs importants entre les accords et facilite la compréhension des progressions d'accords, plutôt que de se perdre dans la mémorisation de positions de doigts.
Pourquoi l'auteur du script recommande-t-il d'apprendre les accords en contexte plutôt que de les mémoriser en isolation ?
-Apprendre les accords en contexte permet de comprendre les raisons pour lesquelles certaines combinaisons d'accords sonnent bien ensemble, ce qui est essentiel pour la composition musicale.
Outlines
🎼 Les bases de la composition musicale avec des accords de guitare
Le premier paragraphe expose les fondamentaux de la composition musicale sur la guitare. Il est question de la nécessité de connaître un nombre limité d'accords pour devenir un bon auteur-compositeur. L'auteur explique que les accords I, IV et V dans une clé donnée sont souvent suffisants pour créer des mélodies attrayantes, mais il est également important d'aller au-delà de ces accords de base pour éviter une sensation de limitation. L'accent est mis sur la théorie musicale derrière ces accords, montrant comment les assembler en progressions d'accords significatives et agréables. L'auteur illustre également comment ces accords sont génériques et s'appliquent à toutes les clés, en utilisant l'exemple des accords dans la clé de C et la manière dont ils sont construits par rapport à l'échelle.
📚 Réduction de la liste d'accords à apprendre grâce à l'élimination des redondances
Le deuxième paragraphe se concentre sur la réduction du nombre d'accords à apprendre en éliminant les redondances. L'auteur explique que, bien que 84 accords puissent être calculés en multipliant les 7 accords de base par les 12 clés, de nombreux accords se répètent dans différentes clés. En supprimant ces redondances, le nombre d'accords à mémoriser est réduit à 36, ce qui est beaucoup plus gérable. L'auteur partage son expérience personnelle d'apprentissage des accords et souligne l'importance de ne pas se concentrer uniquement sur les positions des doigts, mais de comprendre les relations entre les accords et comment ils peuvent être utilisés pour créer des progressions d'accords.
🔄 Utilisation du cercle des quintes pour organiser et comprendre les accords
Le troisième paragraphe décrit comment le cercle des quintes peut être utilisé pour organiser et comprendre les relations entre les accords. L'auteur montre comment les accords majeurs, mineurs et diminués peuvent être disposés de manière à mettre en évidence les relations entre les accords adjacents. Cette organisation permet de créer des progressions d'accords plus riches et variées, en utilisant non seulement les accords de base I, IV et V, mais aussi les accords mineurs et les accords diminués. L'auteur insiste sur l'importance de cette compréhension pour la composition musicale et la création de son propre matériel musical, plutôt que de se limiter à l'apprentissage des positions d'accords.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Accords
💡Théorie musicale
💡Guitare
💡Progression d'accords
💡Cercle des quintes
💡Accords de base
💡Accords majeurs
💡Accords mineurs
💡Accords diminués
💡Simplicité
Highlights
To become a proficient songwriter on the guitar, mastering a few chords is essential.
The video explains the specific chords needed and their relationship to music theory for creating meaningful chord progressions.
Harlan Howard's quote 'all you need is three chords and the truth' simplifies the foundation of songwriting in country music and beyond.
The 'one, four, five' chords in any key form the basis of many songs, including those in the 12 Bar Blues and rock and roll.
Understanding the generic labels of chords one, four, and five across all 12 keys is crucial for songwriting.
Chords are built from the underlying scale of a key, with specific intervals forming major, minor, and diminished chords.
There are 7 chords in the key of C, each labeled with a Roman numeral corresponding to its scale degree.
All 12 keys follow the same pattern, forming the same chords but with different specific notes.
While there are 84 possible chords in 12 keys, many are redundant, and the actual number needed is significantly less.
By eliminating redundant chords, the total is reduced to 36 essential chords, including 12 major, 12 minor, and 12 diminished.
The circle of fifths arrangement visually represents the relationships between chords, aiding in composing chord progressions.
The 12 major chords can be arranged in a circle of fifths to show their close relationships and facilitate songwriting.
Adding minor chords to the circle of fifths expands the harmonic palette for songwriting.
The circle of fifths with major, minor, and diminished chords provides a comprehensive guide for songwriting.
Learning the core set of 36 chords is more manageable and allows for the discovery of important patterns and relationships.
The video emphasizes the importance of understanding chord relationships over mere memorization of finger positions.
The provided diagram in the video combines the mechanics of playing chords with the theory of progressions for immediate songwriting application.
Additional chord shapes and positions across the fretboard are explored in other videos for more advanced songwriting.
Transcripts
if you want to become a really good
songwriter on the guitar the truth is
there are only a few chords that you
have to know and in this video I'm going
to show you exactly how many chords
which chords specifically and how they
all relate the music theory behind them
so you know how to string them into
meaningful chord progressions that sound
great now whether you're a beginner
you're new to the guitar or you've been
playing for a long time by the end of
this you will know way more than most
people care to admit and you'll be able
to just jump to the fun part of actually
making your own music so when it comes
to songwriting you may have heard the
old saying all you need is three chords
and the truth which is a quote by the
songwriter Harlan Howard in the 1950s to
describe country music though really you
could say that this applies to most
styles of music by truth he meant lyrics
that are honest and tell a real and
relatable story and when he said three
chords he was referring to the one four
five chords in any given key since these
harmonies are so satisfying and
fundamental that entire songs are often
composed from the one four and five
chords alone now you really should know
more than three chords otherwise you
start to feel limited pretty fast so
that's not really the number of chords
that you should know but it is true that
tons of songs at least hundreds of great
Tunes are based on chords one four and
five alone like every song of the 12 Bar
Blues For example which was the
foundation of rock and roll in the 1950s
they all basically include just these
three chords whether it's Hound Dog by
Elvis or Rock Around the Clock by Bill
Haley and all of the other Classics that
were written with just these three
chords like I say we're about to expand
Beyond just these basic chords but let's
take a little closer look at them
because they actually help us figure out
the full set of chords that you really
need to know and that's because chords
one four and five are generic labels
that apply to various chords in all 12
keys in other words these Roman numerals
describe three chords in the key of C
specifically chords C major
F major and G major and in the key of D
flat these same labels apply to a group
of three totally different chords d-flat
Major G flat major and a flat major and
in the key of D chords one four and five
are D Major G major and a major and so
on in each separate key the specific
chords are different but they share the
same general labels the same Roman
numerals because of how chords are built
from the underlying scale of a key for
example in the key of C the c major
scale
is formed by playing intervals one two
three four five six seven eight which I
explain in detail in another video but
the basic idea is that to build chords
from this pattern all you have to do is
combine every other note in groups of
three starting on each scale degree or
interval to get these seven chords in
the key of C as our example C Major D
Minor E minor F major G major a minor
and B
where each chord is labeled with a Roman
numeral that corresponds with the scale
degree of its root note in the key of C
C major Roman numeral one starts on
scale degree 1 D Minor Roman numeral two
begins on scale degree two and so on
down the line where the capitalized
numerals one four and five are major
chords the lowercase numerals 2 3 and 6
are minor chords and this little O
symbol here means the seven chord is
diminished so in total there are seven
chords in this one key in the key of C
and since all 12 Keys follow the same
pattern the same chords are formed in
each one where these tables show the
structure of chords in each key but
looking at them another way as guitar
chord diagrams you can see that in total
it's a lot in fact when you count them
all up seven chords times 12 keys they
add up to 84 chords which is a lot to
memorize and learn though I'm not saying
that's how many chords you need to know
that's not the number either it's not as
many as 84 and it's not as little as
three it is somewhere in between and
it's a lot less than 84 as it turns out
because really most of these chord
diagrams are redundant the same chords
show up in multiple keys so let's weed
out the repeats starting with the key of
C we have C Major D Minor E minor F
major G major a minor and B diminished
so we'll keep all of these since none of
them are repeats yet then in the key of
G we have G major which is already in
the key of C so let's get rid of that
then a minor also another repeat from
the key of C so we'll strike that one
too then B minor which is new since the
key of C includes a b diminished chord
not a B minor chord so this one's a
keeper and the next chord in the key of
G is C major already included in the key
of C so delete then D major which is new
here so keep E minor a repeat so delete
and F sharp diminished new so we keep it
and going through the chords in every
key in the same way you can see that
actually there's a lot of repeated
chords where the same harmonies appear
in multiple keys so once we remove them
weeding out all of the Redundant chord
diagrams we're left with way less than
half of the original 84. so what first
looked like a daunting list of chords to
memorize is now reduced to only a
fraction to a total of just 36 basically
12 major chords one major chord for each
key 12 minor chords and 12 diminished
chords together these 36 chords are what
make up the full set of harmonies in
every key it's just that this basic set
of chords is repeated and rearranged
into different patterns in various keys
but when you get down to it and
eliminate the repeats we're left with
only 36 chords which is much more
manageable but even then we can condense
this all even further which I'll show
you in a second though I have to say
that if I had known this when I first
started back in the day when I got into
guitar it would have saved me a bunch of
time and heartache because I wanted to
know all of the options available so I
got a guitar chord dictionary like this
and went through the grind of trying to
memorize every finger position for
hundreds of chords up and down the
fretboard it was painful frankly but I
felt lucky at the time thinking that
this was a fairly concise summary of
what I had to learn and it was nice that
I didn't have to ride a bus across town
like the Beatles did according to Legend
to learn how to play a B7 chord from
some guy they'd heard of who knew this
exotic chord they had to travel far and
wide to collect chords but with a book
like this I didn't have to go on a
scavenger hunt since everything had been
collected and perfectly organized or so
I thought but it wasn't true the idea
that it was a perfect collection for a
couple of reasons first because most of
these chords are redundant as you've
already seen it's just the same
harmonies repeated to fill up a lot of
pages and look more impressive to then
raise the price I paid for this
dictionary while just giving me busy
work to practice on the guitar in
seconds even more importantly because
all of the chords shown here are out of
context in other words all of these
diagrams show you how to play the
various chords Monkey C Monkey Do style
but they don't illustrate why certain
chords sound good together or show how
to play various chords in sequence to
write good chord progressions which is
what matters in songwriting and what
brings us back to the short list of
chords we'd whittled down a minute ago
the 12 major chords 12 minor chords and
12 diminished chords together these are
the 36 harmonies that make up every key
in reality all of the extra chords found
in books and chord dictionaries are just
variations and extensions of this core
set of chords so to begin their
extraneous and distracting but once you
narrow things down to the smaller group
it's more manageable it's not so
overwhelming and you can start to see
important patterns that show how they're
all related to each other which you can
then use you can use these relationships
and patterns to compose chord
progressions so what are these patterns
that I'm talking about well instead of
listing each type of chord laid out in a
row like this all the major minor and
diminished chords instead let's start
with the major chords and place them in
a loop like this in a circle of fifths
Arrangement where the name of each
Harmony C Major G Major D major Etc
forms a visible color wheel that
highlights the closer relationships
between all neighboring chords in this
ring and what's really helpful is that
if you take any three chords that are
adjacent like C major F major and G
major for example they are the one four
and five chords together with one being
the middle chord in this group these are
the three essential chords that Harlan
Howard was talking about when he said
that all you need are three chords and
the truth in the key of C with C being
the middle chord of this group C major F
major and G major Are chords one four
and five respectively so if you just
move back and forth between these chords
alone you can make some good music
[Music]
all the time
well you ain't never gonna rabbit and
you ain't no friend of mine and since
these same relationships are consistent
everywhere in the circle of fifths you
can focus on any three chords that are
neighbors in the same 145 pattern is
there in the key of G G major is one C
major is four and D major is five and
even way over here A flat major is one d
flat major is four and E flat major is
five this pattern these relationships
are consistent all around the circle so
now all of these major chords are
arranged in a way that give you context
so it's not just about memorizing the
finger positions in each diagram but now
the positions of these chord charts in
relation to each other already guide you
in the process of playing chord
progressions which is a good start but
again after a while the 12 Bar Blues and
simple 145 progressions can start to
sound boring no matter how many keys you
play them in so to expand the options
even more we can add in all of the minor
chords wrapping them in a loop around
the inner ring of major chords and
aligning each minor chord with its
relative major so a minor is above C
major E minor is above G major and so on
all the way around the circle of fifths
and by arranging the chords in this way
you can Branch out from using only the
one four five of Any Given key to
include the minor harmonies of minor two
minor three and minor six as well for
example in the key of C C major is the
major one chord D Minor is the minor two
E minor is the minor three F major is
the major four and G major is the major
five and a minor sees relative minor is
the minor six chord in the key of C so
now we have a larger palette of chords
to play in a given key and since all of
the chords in a key are formed from the
same underlying Source scale they sound
compatible
foreign meaning you can play chord
progressions that move within a group of
neighbors like this and it will sound
good like in the classic Pachelbel
progression which has more harmonic
depth and variety than the old 12 Bar
Blues
and again because all 12 keys are
symmetrical following the same patterns
this arrangement of the major one four
and five chords in relation to the
relative minor chords is consistent in
every key no matter what key you're in
so now we have 24 chords to work with 12
major and 12 minor and really that's all
you need that's the answer the core
number of chords to learn to write an
almost endless variety of songs but to
round things out you can also add in
that last set of 12 diminished chords to
the circle of fifths which gives you an
even bigger pool of options to choose
from just aligning each diminished chord
with its respective major chord in each
key so B diminished is in this outer
ring above of C major and F sharp
diminished is above G major Etc all
around the circle of fifths and with
this Arrangement you can now play all of
the chords in a given key anywhere in
the circle so now you have all of the
essential chords on the guitar arranged
in a way that lends itself to writing
chord progressions there are of course
many other chords augmented chords
seventh chords extended chords and all
of that which I talk about in other
videos but when you get right down to it
these are the most fundamental chords
and in this diagram again you're not
limiting yourself to merely memorizing
finger positions which are important
knowing how to play each chord is
essential but this illustration goes
beyond that because the positioning of
each chord also shows you which chords
naturally go together in pleasing ways
which ultimately is even more important
than just knowing how to play the chords
and if you watch my video on modes in
the circle of fifths which explains
where borrowed chords come from you can
expand your songwriting even further so
definitely check that out but the point
here is that this one diagram packs a
one-two punch showing you exactly how to
play each of these chords on the guitar
fretboard the mechanics of playing while
at the same time also illustrating why
the various chords sound good together
the logic or theory of progressions due
to their relationships within each key
and in the circle of fifths which allows
you to immediately start making your own
music even as you learn to play chords
granted the chords in this diagram are
the most common fingering just one set
of inversions and the open chords and in
other videos I explain other chord
shapes all across the fretboard so you
can play any possible position but
honestly if I'd had this when I first
learned the guitar or hell even after
years of playing it would have saved me
so much time and frustration and instead
of kind of blindly trying to piece
together what chords go well together I
could have just cut to the Chase and
jumped into the fun part of creation of
making my own music which is what I
always wanted to do in the first place
so hopefully this was helpful in the
video notes there's a link to a PDF with
all of the diagrams that we've been
looking at here and in the community
there are hundreds tons of diagrams that
explain music theory further for
songwriting so thank you for watching
please let the algorithm know if you
liked it and I will see you in the next
video
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