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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.