Scales - Find All the Piano Chords You Need - Part 1

[tuckerkao]

The purpose of these scales are for the convenience of the composers to find the chords they need faster in a harmonical way. Each measure represents a complete chord scattered on running notes for both directions.
   
Part 1 includes all the basic chords (major, minor, diminish and augment) with root and inverted configurations.
   
I will work on dominant 7, half-diminish 7, major 7, minor 7 and more in the future.

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Part 2 includes - Dominant 7 (C E G Bb) and Minor Natural 6 (C Eb G A).

Minor Natural 6 is essentially the same chord as Half Diminished 7 (C Eb Gb Bb) with different inverted configurations.

The reason I group Dominant 7 and Minor Natural 6 - because they are the mirror-imaged chords. The symmetries are important because the roots of the 4 different Dominant 7 make a Minor Natural 6.

4 Dominant configurations using C key for the primary octave

C Dominant 7 (C E G Bb C)
F Dominant 7 (C Eb F A C)
D Dominant 7 (C D F# A C)
Ab Dominant 7 (C Eb Gb Ab C)

(C D F Ab) is a Minor Natural 6 rooted on F key.

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Part 3 includes - Major 6 (C E G A) and Minor 6 (C Eb G Ab).

Major 6 is essentially the same chord as Minor 7 (C Eb G Bb) with different inverted configurations.

Minor 6 is essentially the same chord as Major 7 (C E G B) with different inverted configurations.

These chords are used most often by the contemporary musicians.

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Part 4 includes - Major Flat 6 (C E G Ab) and Minor Natural 7 (C Eb G B).

Major Flat 6 also has a common name - Augment Major.

Minor Natural 7 also has a common name - Augment Minor.

These chords are usually used for the themes of the ranger and sci-fi movies.

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Part 5 includes - Major 2 (C D E G) and Minor 4 (C Eb F G).

Again these two chords are the reflective compliments on the two sides of the mirrors.

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Part 6 includes - Major 4 (C E F G) and Minor 2 (C D Eb G).

The modulations are somewhat different from one measure to the next comparing to the scales in the previous parts because the chords in part 6 only work the best if they swing back and forth as if the light beams are descending unto the ground level like what happened in the mythology movies.

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Part 7 includes - Major Sharp 4 (C E F# G) and Minor Flat 2 (C Db Eb G).

The two chords list above have been used only in the theme songs of some movies and Chopin's Polanaise collections + Fantasie Impromptu. The moods feel quiet fantasy for the pieces when these chords are used.

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Part 8  includes - Major Flat 2 (C Db E G) and Minor Sharp 4 (C Eb F# G).

Major Flat 2 often appears during the downstreams in the Middle Eastern songs.
Minor Sharp 4 can be found inside several measures of Chopin's Etude Revolutionaire.

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Part 9 includes - 3 unique types of dual fourth chords: (C F Bb C), (C F B C) and (C F# B C).

An additional section of chord practices was attached on the end.

[pianowolfi]

Thanks for posting all this!

[tuckerkao]

Thanks pianowolfi for your supports.

Part 10 includes - Augment 2 (C D E G#), (C E F# Bb) and (C F Gb B).

These chords might be uncommon and are used seldomly.

[sissco]

Well....this is pretty euh....   overwhelming  Very useful!

[tuckerkao]

Thanks sissco for the wonderful feedbacks.

Part 11 includes - (C D F G) and (C Eb E G).

(C D F G) and (C Eb F Bb) are essentially the same chord with different inverted configuration. (C Eb E G) is the only type of primary chord that is both a major and a minor.

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Part 12 includes - (C E F Bb) and (C E F# B).

(C E F Bb) and (C D F# G) are the same chord with different inverted configurations.
(C E F# B) and (C Db F G) are the same chord with different inverted configurations.

These collections of chords only appear in the compositions of Liszt and Rachmaninoff, probably the hardest sets of chords on the piano.

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Part 13 includes - (C D Eb F#) and (C Eb E F#).

Both are the chords of the diminished type and can be found inside the Middle Eastern songs.

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Part 14 includes - (C Db Eb F#) and (C Eb F Gb).

These diminished chords are often used for the transition phrases in the Beethoven Sonatas.

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Part 15 includes - (C Db E F) and (C Db F Gb).

Is the first page of Chopin's Heroic Polanaise really hard? No, it'll be much easier if you have practiced part 15 a hundred times already.

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Part 16 includes - (C D E F) and (C Db Eb F).

These chords are more of the common types which you may raise the secondary or tertiary notes an octave higher to generate the contemporary feels.

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Part 17 includes - (C D Eb F) and (C D E F#).

These chords are similar to the ones in part 16. Except the chords in part 17 are minors and augments instead of majors.

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Part 18 includes - (C Db E F#) and (C D F Gb).

These chords are very uncommon and perhaps can only be found inside a few of the dark themed movies.

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Part 19 includes - (C D F), (C Eb F), (C E F), (C Db F) and (C C# D).

These chords, which are the common fragments from the previous parts, may provide the composers of how to use the partial chords instead of the full chords.

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Part 20 includes - (C D E), (C D Eb), (C Db Eb), (C Db E) and (C D# E).

These chords are again the partial chords. They can be used to reconstruct new full chords that were found in the previous parts.

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Final Part includes - (C D F#), (C E F#) and (C Eb F# A C).

These chords have the characters of simplity and easy memorable.

The whole scale sets which includes 21 parts can be placed on a circle and they will have the close relations from the adjacent parts (including Final Part and Part 1).