Interval & Chord Progression

Must work harder recently editing all my tutorial and materials, so I can start to arrange my own syllabus in guitar tutoring, wish me good luck !!

最近想编我自己的吉他教案，得加把劲把脑海里的资料整理出来，大家为我打气吧！

Introduction


I believe you've got some idea about INTERVAL on my last tutorial (see here), now you know how to construct some fancy pattern boombastic chord using the formula provided once you set the root
note. In this tutorial, we will talk about the relationship between interval and  chord progression.

This session is trying to help you to understand the colour and feeling of a chord when it appears in certain timing of a song. This idea also helps you to train your relative pitch!! (Discussion about Perfect Pitch and Relative Pitch see here, but don't click yet, I haven't compose that, hahaha)

相信看完之前那一篇的朋友对音程度数已经有一些概念了。现在我们已经可以在定出根音后用音程度数的概念来编出和弦了，今天我们就来讨论音程度数和和弦进行之间的关系。希望这篇文章能帮助大家了解和弦在歌曲中出现时他所带有的色彩和感觉。使用音程度数的概念来扒曲子能训练你的相对音感哦！


What is Chord Progression?

Explain in the most simple way word and method, chord progression is the route that chord appear in a song. 

We already know to set the root to find the interval, today, we are going to start by setting the root first too, but some idea is different:

• the root of finding a chord will be the "bass note" of that chord (of course we start with the lowest tone), 
• the root of understanding chord progression will be the playing key, or I just simply call it the Root Chord here, ex: in C key, the root will be C Major chord; in E key, the root will be E Major chord.

ok we still start with the most basic one, we start with C key. Normally in a song they won't be all Major chord, it will mix in some minor too, but do you know all these minor chords stands in a specific position in the interval too?

Let's see this graph (see figure 1), I put in the most common chord to be use in recent pop songs.

什么是和弦进行？用最简单的方式来讲，就是和弦进行的方式，简单明了易懂吧？

我们已经知道要开始使用音程度数时得知道你的根音在哪里，今天我们也得先定好我们的根音，但有些概念时和建构和弦时不一样的：

• 建构和弦时的根音指的是找出和弦中最低的音。
• 找出和弦进行时所谓的根音指的是曲调中的第一个和弦，或者说是根和弦（注：这只是为方便大家了解提出的一个概念，并不是专业术语），如C调的根就是C大调和弦；E调的根就是E大调和弦。

一样先从最基本C调开始：通常一首歌曲不会全都是大调和弦，间中也会混入小调和弦，你们知道这些小调和弦在和弦进行中也是占有特定位置的吗？见figure 1，这些是流行歌曲常会用到的一些和弦。

figure 1

Interval & Chord

Introduction

As the foundation of the foundation of music (my own opinion), interval is a very important concept that applied in Scale, Chord and Chord progession. Thanks to the explanation of Mr Ben Powell, I get to have a clearer understand to this music theory, I'm here sharing this with you guys.

（我自己一个人自己认为），作为基础中的基础，音程度数是在音阶、和弦以及和弦进行中很重要的一个概念。之前遇到了在英国巴斯镇的一位高人指点让我一下子贯通了这个苦恼我很多年的概念，现在分享给大家。

Ben Powell, A very talented fingerstyle player and tutor based in Bath, UK, link to his website.

Interval 

What is interval? Basically speaking, it's the distance between music note and note, and each distance had been granted a name.

A most important idea to understand the concept of interval is to understand it with the NUMBERS above it, not the note itself

Today, we are all starting with the root note"C". As in C Major key, we all know the note are as following (see figure 1):

今天我们就来简单的解释一下音程度数，还有音程度数在建构和弦上的应用。

什么是音程度数叻？简单来讲，就是音符与音符之间的距离的名称。要了解音程度数的概念，我们得用数字来了解，而不是音符的唱名，所以接下你会看到很多数字，这也是为了方便，当你有了“数字”的概念以后，你就能把音程度数的概念应用到每一个曲调中，而不会被单一曲调限制。


把根音定在最常用的“C"音符开始。见figure 1，我们可以看到在C大调音阶中出现的音阶。

figure 1

Broken Stonebridge

acknowledgement: I want to sent my grateful to Ben Powell, David Mead, Jonny Kinkade and every acoustic folks that gave me advices, concern and all the support they gave to help me sort this case out, MANY THANKS!!!

I've bought a Stonebridge GS40CM for my christmas last year, but when i receive it, the headstock is broken!!! I've sent it to repair and it was perfectly fixed, here's some photo about this fantastic instrument.

How it is broken, you can see that even the truss rod is snapped out from the neck, omgodness my poor little stonebridge how did the courier treated you...

i guess this is how they handle my parcel. (according to the seller, the courier is Ctilink, and they don't seems like giving any compensation until now, so brace yourself if you need their service.......)

 

And it is well repaired, here's a photo with my Washburn Dreadnought