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Offline musicioso

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I need help regarding CHORDS of different SCALES.
on: April 19, 2012, 10:58:56 PM
Hallo dear all,

I am doing a lot of improvisations on the 10 basic scales used in eastern classical music.
Can you guys tell me which CHORDS i can use for each scale?

I know this is a lot to ask. But any help is welcome, even if you write down the chords for just one of the scales.


So here are the scales i use.

1 C# D# F G G# A# C C#

2 C# D E F# G# A B C#

3 C# D F F# G# A C C#

4 C# D# F F# G# A# C C# (this is C sharp major scale, isn't it?)

5 C# D# E F# G# A# B C#

6 C#D# E F# G# A B C# (C sharp minor?)

7 C# D# F F# G# A# B C#

8 C# D F G G# A# C C#

9 C# D F G G# A C C#

10 C# D E G G# A C C#


Any help is welcome, hope you guys can help me as i have no further education in music theory

Offline perpetual_dan

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Re: I need help regarding CHORDS of different SCALES.
Reply #1 on: April 26, 2012, 12:17:32 PM
I don't know much about eastern classical music, which might have its own ideas of chords, and I think you've had part of an answer in an earlier thread, but...

I am doing a lot of improvisations on the 10 basic scales used in eastern classical music.
Can you guys tell me which CHORDS i can use for each scale?

I know this is a lot to ask. But any help is welcome, even if you write down the chords for just one of the scales.


So here are the scales i use.

<snip>

4 C# D# F F# G# A# C C# (this is C sharp major scale, isn't it?)

6 C#D# E F# G# A B C# (C sharp minor?)

<snip>

Any help is welcome, hope you guys can help me as i have no further education in music theory

C sharp major would call the F an E-sharp and the C a B-sharp.

The basic triad is 1st, 3rd, 5th - C#, E# (or E for the minor), G#. I think this fits over all the scales you show.

You may want other chords, with a different root but the same pattern of intervals and/or chords with extra notes - but at that point you start to want to know about what harmonic language fits the genre. And now you're educating yourself about music theory :)

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