How to Play Chords on the Flute in D Flat Major: Part 1

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We have learned the notes in the scale of D flat major. From these notes there are many things that come out of them to help you learn and understand and play in the key better. One of these components is chords. A chord is a group of 3 or more notes from that are put together. The 1st chord that we are going to look at starts from the 1st note of the scale D flat. It uses the 1st note, 3rd and 5th note as you can see here from the scale. It is put together and played using these notes. When it is broken up as such is called a arpeggio, a arpeggio outlines the note in a chord and they are played one by one. Here is D flat major arpeggio. This chord has a major quality because of the amount of half steps between the notes in the chord. The intervals of these notes is a 3rd because they represent 3 notes they are the distance between 3 notes. You can see the bottom of this chord is a major 3rd from D flat to F. We know this is a major chord because a major 3rd has 4 half steps. Let's look at the piano to get a idea of half steps. Starting on D flat we go to the 3rd note in the scale and we can count 1,2,3,4 half steps. That is a major triad.

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