Have you ever tried to learn harmonic field and never succeeded? Starting today, this problem will be resolved! Watch this video until the end, I'm sure it will be worth it for you.
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Let's go! Harmonic field is nothing more than a group of chords that combine with each other. Songs are made with these chords that combine.
If you don't know what a chord is, chords are three sounds, like the sound of three guitar strings played at the same time. On the guitar, this is C major, this is D minor, this is E minor, among many others. The harmonic field has seven chords that combine, with the first chord being called the first degree, also known as the tone.
The second chord is the second degree, and so on. Here we have the second degree, the third degree, the fourth degree known as subdominant, the fifth degree known as dominant, the sixth degree and the seventh degree. The eighth chord is the same as the first, that is, it is the tone of the song.
The most used in music are the first degree (tone), the fourth degree (subdominant) and the fifth degree (dominant), but other minor chords are also used. Only the seventh degree is almost never played. To understand the harmonic field, you first need to know the chromatic scale.
You already know the natural scale: C, D, E, F, G, A, B. However, between C and D we have a note known as C sharp. We wrote C and put a hashtag, representing C sharp, which can also be called D flat.
To facilitate our studies, we will only use the sharp nomenclature. The chromatic scale looks like this: C, C sharp, D, D sharp. Between D and E, we have a note called D sharp.
Between E and F, there is no note, and between B and C there is also no note. Those notes that end with the letter "i", mi and si, do not have sharps. The chromatic scale is: C, C sharp, D, D sharp, E, F, F sharp, G, G sharp, A, A sharp.
This chromatic scale is very important for forming the larger harmonic field. With this formula that I am going to give you now, you understand the greater harmonic field. The rule is the following: here we have the first degree, which is the tone.
Let's skip a note on the chromatic scale. The formula works like this: you skip a note on the chromatic scale. For example, being in C, jump to D, skipping C sharp.
We arrive at the second chord, the second degree. Skip a note in the scale and we reach the third degree. From the third to the fourth chord, which is known as the subdominant, you cannot skip.
Go to the next note. So, if we were in third, let's go to F. Continuing, we have a sequence of three jumps.
From the fourth to the fifth degree, skip one note. So if we were in F, we jumped to G. And so on, until we complete the seven chords of the harmonic field.
Remembering that the tone is a major chord, the fourth degree (subdominant) is major, the fifth degree (dominant) is major, and the second, third and sixth degrees are minor. The seventh degree is kind of diminutive. For you to see in practice how it works, let's form the harmonic field of C major.
I put the letter C, which represents C major. Skip a note, we arrive at D minor, second degree. Skip another note, we arrive at E minor, third degree.
From E, it doesn't skip, it goes to F, fourth degree, major. From F, jump to G, fifth degree, major. From G, it jumps to A minor, sixth degree.
From there, it jumps to half-diminished B, seventh degree. We have the harmonic field of C major. Let's form the reverse harmonic field.
We have D major. Skip a note, we arrive at E minor, second degree. Skip another note, we arrive at F sharp minor, third degree.
From F sharp, don't skip, go to G, fourth degree, major. From G, it jumps to A major, fifth degree. Jump to B minor, sixth degree.
Jump to half-diminished C sharp, seventh degree. Now, the harmonic field of sun. G, jump to A minor, second degree.
Jump to B minor, third degree. From B, it doesn't skip, it goes to C, fourth degree, major. From C, it jumps to D major, fifth degree.
Jump to E minor, sixth degree. Jump to half-diminished F sharp, seventh degree. To make it easier, I made the chromatic scale on a strip of paper and a template with the harmonic field formula: jump, jump, don't jump, jump, jump, jump.
Let's check: In the harmonic field of C, we have C, D minor, E minor, F, G, A minor and B half diminished. In D, we have D, E minor, F sharp minor, G, A, B minor and C sharp half diminished. With this idea, you can discover everyone.
For example, the harmonic field of F: F, G minor, A minor, A sharp, C, D minor and E half diminished. My friends, like, leave a message in the comments and share this video, as it helps us a lot. I highly recommend this video here on the card so you can learn how to pick up the tone on the guitar.
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