How Chords Work in Scales on the Mandolin

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Alright in the first session we talked about major scales, and we talked about an order of chords in a key. And I demonstrated to you, I think using root positions, shapes, how they sounded in a key. Coming back to G, and to the diminished end at the one. So I just kind of cruised through that really quickly. I'll come at it again just so you can see. It's a harmonized major scale o.k? And I know we were just talking about minor scales o.k? And just like in a major scale with there's three chords that are major in every key there's also three minor chords. So there's only a certain number of chords in each key. The order of chords is, major, minor, minor, major, major, minor and diminished o.k? So the three minor chords, if I put those together would be G minor, C minor, D minor, back to G o.k? And it still sounds like you're playing in one key. And so that's what I mean when you have keys, songs that are in the minor key or a major key. You just use those same type of chords.

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