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Gospel Piano
Martin Gureasko
2014 nakedkeyboardist.com
The Naked Keyboardist
Beginner - Lesson 1A
REVIEW - The Scale Tone Chords
These triads (three-note chords) are built on each tone of the scale, using only those notes
found within the scale. Please keep in mind, this is foundational. I cannot stress enough how
important it is to build upon this foundation. As you will see in Example 2, we are going to
add something to this in this lesson and we're only scratching the surface.
In subsequent lessons, we will be covering chromatic scale tone chords, which is basically
just altering the chords we have now. But there are also 7th, 9th, 11th, and 13th chords and
you will also have options of making a chord major, minor, diminished, or augmented. So you
see, it's important not to rush by this phase.
The harmony of gospel music (and ALL popular music for that matter, i.e. country, jazz, rock,
bluegrass....) is based on the diatonic major scale. I want to show you the framework for this
scale so that you can take any note and build the major scale on it (even if you don't read music)
and once you've built that scale, you can then build the scale tone chords.
The formula for the scale is: W W h W W W h
W - whole step (two half steps)
h - half step (from one note to the next note with no notes in between)
Scale of C. No sharps or flats.
Diatonic harmony moves in TWO directions: horizontal and vertical
HORIZONTAL VERTICAL
W W h W W W h
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When you combine these two movements, you derive the scale-tone chords in the key of C. (see
Example 1 - essentially, you build the triads by selecting every other note))
The Scale Tone Seventh Chords
By extension, we can also create the scale tone seventh chords. (using the 1-3-5-7)
The V-I Cadence (also called perfect cadence, authentic cadence, closed cadence, or standard
cadence. The Harvard Concise Dictionary of Music and Musicians says, "This cadence
is a microcosm of the tonal system, and is the most direct means of establishing a pitch as tonic.
It is virtually obligatory as the final structural cadence of a tonal work." It is very common to
add the 7th to the V chord (making it a dominant 7th) when resolving to a I chord.
New Grooves: (and yes, as in the last lesson, I'm flatting the 7th degree of the scale)
EXAMPLE 2
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I want to address chord substitutions. How do you know which chord will work for another chord?
The easiest way to think about it is to look for chords that have two common notes (when working
with triads; if you have chords of a 7th or more, you want to look for two or more common notes)
In the example below, I show the most common chord substitution possibilites. I will use the key
signature of C.
Let's take a look at Jesus Paid It All. I'm merely making substitutions using the scale tone chords.
The chord symbols are above the melody line. The left hand simply plays the root of the chord, unless
it is a split chord, in which case the right hand plays the "numerator" and the left hand plays the
"denominator.)
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Here are the scale tone chords in ALL 12 keys.
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Here are the Scale Tone Seventh Chords in ALL 12 keys.
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Jesus Paid It All
Arrangement by Martin Gureasko
INTRO