Page 5 - TMRT Modes - Chords

Introduction: Modes and their Chords

This, the final section of The Music Reader's Toolbox, brings you to an area of

music few musicians understand.

When reading music the scale, in the shape of the key signature, indicates the

notes used in the song plus, if needed, the occasional accidental.

There's something else is in a scale, something powerful, and on a need to

know basis, is essential.

Within each scale other scales are waiting for you to discover. To avoid

confusion these seven scales have a different name, they are modes.

Each mode contains a chord. I will teach you how to find the seven natural

chords, one from each mode, and how and where to play them on the guitar.

It is at that moment a scale becomes a key.

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