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Tetrad Chords / Seventh Chords - Music Theory with Guitar Shapes
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2018-09-11
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What's a Tetrad ?
A basic chord is built with three notes this is what we call "triad chords" or "triads". Tetrad chords aka "four note-chords" or "seventh chords" are simply chords containing four notes, “tetra“ is a Greek root meaning four. Tetrads can be seen as triads with an additional note which can be a major seventh (7) or a minor seventh (b7).
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Harmonization Of The Major Scale - Guitar Lesson With Shapes and Charts
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2016-12-19
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Scale harmonization is the process of creating chords from each note of a given musical scale. This is one of the fundamental theoretical elements to understand music.
This lesson explains how to create triads and seventh chords from each note of the major scale.