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

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We have now learned all the note to a D major scale. To help you hear the sound in D major and understand the scale a little bit better let's look at chords that comes out of the scale. We would first look at a major scale starting on the first note of the scale D major. D starting on the first note and playing the 1st note, the 3rd and the 5th note of the scale we outline a chord. A chord is a group of 3 or more pitches from the scale played together to make a certain type of sound. If you start on the 1st note of the D major scale you have a A played the 1st, 3rd and 5th you make a major chord. A major chord is defined by how many intervals, the intervals distance between the notes. Between the 1st 2 notes is a distance of the 3rd and it happens to be a major 3rd. A major 3rd has 4 half steps. Between the 2nd and 3rd notes of a scale you have a minor 3rd this is 3 half steps. Let's look at the piano to understand half steps. You start on the which is the 1st note and move to the 3rd note of the scale F sharp. You notice there are 1,2,3,4, half steps making that a major 3rd. From the 3rd note of the scale to the 5th note of the scale you have 1,2,3 that is 3 half steps or a minor 3rd. This is a major chord from the 3rd note in the D major scale. Broken apart it is the note is played separately it is called a arpeggio this is what we play on the flute to play one note at a time so you can understand a chord in D major.

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