Do You Know The Primary Chords In Each Key?
There are thousands of chords you COULD play, but in any given key there are only 3 that are “primary” chords. That means they are indigenous to that key, just like you are indigenous to your family. If you have 3 people in your family, those 3 people are probably going to show up in your home a thousand times more often than some stranger, and hundreds of times more often than even a neighbor.
Just so, the 3 primary chords in any key are the TONIC CHORD, THE SUB-DOMINANT CHORD, AND THE DOMINANT CHORD. These 3 chords are often notated as the I chord, the IV chord, and the V chord – in other words, the chord built on the first degree of the scale, the chord built on the 4th degree of the scale, and the chord built on the 5th degree of the scale.
Watch this short video and you will understand:
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