Minor 3 5s for Reading a Fake Book in A Major

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Now we're going to go over our minor two-fives, and our minor two-fives function just as the regular two-fives we use, remember two, five, goes to one major. What a minor does is it's a two-five that goes to two minor. So we start on three, and go to six, right. So if two minor was our center and it was a one, then our three chord would be a two, and our five chord would be a six, you get what I'm saying. So we start here on A major, then we go up to our three right, A, B, C sharp, so C sharp and then our six is F sharp, and it leads into B minor. So, we get our scales the same way, right. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. So here's our chord, now what we're going to do is take our fifth and drop it down a note, and we have C sharp half diminished. A half diminished chord has a drop fifth. And then, we're going to take our F minor chord that we already learned, and we're going to make it an altered chord by taking the five and squeezing it next to the three and you get this crunchy sound here right there. And that's your F sharp altered, so you have B half diminished to F sharp altered, and you hear how that wants to resolve to A. So... oh wait, it wants to resolve to B, I'm sorry. And we'll show you how those are written out if you look at the manuscript paper, there's your C sharp half diminished. You notice it has a circle with a slash through it, for half diminished. And then F sharp altered, and it says ALT, and that's how you know it's an altered chord. So that's our minor two-five, and again, you just play your C sharp chord, but you drop the fifth, and then you play your F sharp minor chord we already learned, and you drop the fifth to crunch it with the third, as well. So you got these two chords where you alter the fifth, and you get these nice, hip sounds. So now we're going to go through and utilize these two new chords, as we go through our next tune.

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