Minor Keys: Made up of all minor chords?

Good morning. This is Duane and today I’d like to cover the three most likely chords in any minor key. In the next five minutes you could learn the three most likely chords in any minor key and I mean there’s twelve different minor keys so you’ll know those forever if you can just remember this. The one chord is minor, the four chord is minor and the five chord is major. I just played Chopin’s prelude in C minor, the first three chords. That sums up the case for those three most likely chords in any minor key. What’s true in the key is C minor is true in any other minor key.

Let me take it back to a major key for just a second. You probably know that the three most likely chords in any major key are the one chord, the four chord and the five chord. One, based on the first [read 00:01:04] scale. Four, based on the fourth [redo 00:01:05] scale and five, the chord based on the fifth [read 00:01:09] scales. One, four and five. Those are far and away the most likely chords to occur in a major key because they are the major chords in that key, they’re intrinsic or organic to that key.

The same thing is true in minor keys, all you need to remember that the one chord is minor in minor keys. The four chord is also minor when you’re in minor keys, but the five chord remains major. That’s what people forget, they think the five chord maybe minor. The five chord is major that’s because it’s based on the harmonic minor scale which I won’t get into right now. Just remember, the one chord is minor, the four chord is minor and the five chord is major. That’s really all you need to know about minor keys, the most likely chords in any minor key.

Let’s do it in another key, let’s take it to A minor for example. If we’re playing : it’ll tune like Summer Time. The three primary chords there are the one chord based on the first [read 00:02:28] scale. The four chord based on the fourth note of the scale and the five chord based on the fifth note of the scale which is major. One is minor, four is minor and five is major. Let me slowdown that song and you’ll see it. Here’s a one chord, five chord, one, five, one, five, one. All we’ve had is one and five so far, right? There’s a four chord. One, four and five in the key of A minor.

Let’s do another key, one more, let’s say D minor. That’s a key that people like to play, a D minor. The one chord is obviously D minor. The four chord, one, two, three four would be G minor and the five chord would be what? A major. You got it? The one chord is always minor, the four chord is always minor but the five chord is major in any minor key. You can just do the same thing, all twelve minor keys and you got it, henceforth and forever.

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Here is the video on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2w0k77lepA

Wikipedia on minor keys:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_written_in_all_24_major_and_minor_keys
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