Video Transcript

Hi! I¡¯m Mark Black and welcome to expertvillage.com. We¡¯re going to talk about intermediate theory concepts. What we want to talk about is what¡¯s called normative chords, which is the normal chords that songs are built on. Every song you ever heard in your whole life is based on a group of chords called the normative chords. I just want to show you how that comes about. To start with here¡¯s are D major scale and there¡¯s 2 sharps. Now those of you who either don¡¯t read music or don¡¯t music well or whatever, it¡¯s okay that you don¡¯t know this. I¡¯m talking about the sharps and the flats. You may just know that when you play a song these chords sound cool together, and that¡¯s theory even though you don¡¯t necessarily know enough about it to call it that. These are the notes of the D scale. Chords are built in thirds. That is you play a note, you skip a note, you play a note, you skip a note, and you play a note just to listen to this. Here is the D scale we just wrote. Well, if I¡¯m going to play a D chord, I¡¯m going to use the first note, I¡¯m going to skip the second note, use the third note, skip the fourth note. So I¡¯m using the first, the third, and the fifth notes of that major scale. You can hear that sounds like something.