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

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

Sorry Abner, didn't mean to blind you with science!

Do your backing tracks come with chord charts - I should hope they do or they're doing you a dis-service!  If you cross reference the chord symbols on the chart to the cycle of fifths, you should be able to see what I was going on about.  

Some friends of mine have got Iphones and have downloaded an app that gives them chord charts for the Real Book, it's called IReal Book (I think), it's only £4.99 sterling.  You can transpose the tunes on the phone as well - amazing stuff technology!  

Bill 



  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Abner Galdos 
  To: Bill ; harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 3:45 PM
  Subject: Re: [Harp-L] RE: Harp keys cheat sheet - further uses of the Cycle of 5ths


  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