The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #14219   Message #122423
Posted By: Margo
10-Oct-99 - 02:13 AM
Thread Name: Three-chord songs
Subject: RE: Three-chord songs
Yes Garg, music thoery isn't really hard. I know because I was good in music thoery class. But I must admit it was a surprise to me. A lot of it is just putting into technical terms what we know already from listening and playing. I used to have a circle of fifths "wheel", just like the verb wheels we used to have for French class. You dial up a tonic, and you get the dominant and subdominant in little windows. Funny, I had forgotton about that. Yep, it's the old I, IV, V pattern that is the basis for so many songs.....

Margarita