Re: [Harp-L] RE: Harp keys cheat sheet - further uses of the Cycle of 5ths

["Bill" <bill.eborn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"I was on stage with two guitarist and one of them kept showing me the 
chords. Now I don't now music and I don't now how to play the guitar.  So I 
had no idea what chord he was showing me other then the fact that I might 
have been playing wrong"

You can also use the Cycle of Fifths to help you remember your common chord 
sequences.  For example on a standard I, IV, V blues progression, imagine 
that the key of the tune is your 1st position, then your IV chord will be in 
12th position and your V chord will be in 2nd.  So for a blues in C you have 
C7 for your I chord, F7 for your IV chord and G7 for the V chord.

It also works for the ii, V, I/i, progressions that you often find in jazz 
and more sophisticated blues.  Here again if you imagine, the key as 1st 
postion, the ii chord will be in 3rd position, the V chord in 2nd and the 
I/i chord in 1st.   So in C major that gives you Dm7, G7 and Cmaj7 or in C 
minor typically Dm7b5, G7b9 and CmMaj7.

Hope this is useful

Bill