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

["Abner Galdos" <cdgaldos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am understanding the circle of Fifth.
The rest you are trying to teach me is way over my head...
for now....


Thanks Bill for trying.


abner (Blueyes, as hard as a Diamond as dull as coal) 
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Bill 
  To: Abner Galdos ; harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 5:32 AM
  Subject: Re: [Harp-L] RE: Harp keys cheat sheet - further uses of the Cycle of 5ths


  "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