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Monism in Tonality*

C-I: Basic System

Roman Numeral Analysis

1. Relativity in Music In the previous section you learned that every key has its own prime chords. Prime chords in A major key The reason why guitarists memorize a large number of chords lies here. They have to switch the set of prime chords according to the key of a song. Let's say a guitarist makes a song for…
yuta
May 5, 2024
C-I: Basic System

Monism in Tonality

Before getting deeper into chord theory, I'd like talk about the concept "key" in a little more detail. 1. Major Key or Minor Key Traditional Western music theory is based on the thesis that a song can be classified either as "major key" or "minor key". Each key represents the corresponding scale—major scale and minor scale, respectively. Major Key Minor…
yuta
April 29, 2022