Roma Numerals Notating Bass Guitar Chords on an F Major Scale

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RYAN LARSON: All right, so now we're going to go through and show you how professionals actually analyze the music in these roman numerals. So we went through the scale, 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-1, right? So if we go through and look at the roman numerals for each, what it does is describe the actual chord. So we use upper case roman numerals for major chords and lower case for minor. So we have I major, ii minor, iii minor, IV major, V major, vi minor, vii half-diminished. So if we go through the scale again, we go I major, ii minor, iii minor root, IV major, V major, vi minor root, and vii minor root. So this isn't as important to remember, but as we go through and actually analyze the piece, you're going to notice that all the G's or our ii's are going to be minor, all our A's are going to be minor, our B flats will be 7th chords, our C's will 7th chords, and our vi chord which is an E--or no, is a D, will be minor, and our E's will be half-diminished. And I don't think we'll actually go over the half-diminished in this lesson plan, but we go over that in the basics of the bass. So really go through and get that--really get that scale under your fingers, and keep in mind that each note in the scale can be started in their own scale within itself, and we use the roman numerals to notate that when we go through and analyze sheet music.

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