Advanced music theory concepts including modes, extended chords, and common song-form vocabulary for hobbyist musicians.
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- What is Ionian mode?
- The major scale; equivalent to playing the white keys of a piano from C to C
- What is Dorian mode?
- A mode with a minor third and major sixth, built on the second scale degree of major scale
- What is Phrygian mode?
- A mode with a minor second, minor third, and minor seventh, built on the third degree of major scale
- What is Lydian mode?
- A major-sounding mode with a raised fourth degree, built on the fourth degree of major scale
- What is Mixolydian mode?
- A dominant-sounding mode with a major third and minor seventh, built on the fifth degree of major scale
- What is Aeolian mode?
- The natural minor scale, built on the sixth degree of major scale
- What is Locrian mode?
- A dark mode with a lowered second degree and lowered fifth, built on the seventh degree of major scale
- What intervals make a major seventh chord?
- Root, major third, perfect fifth, major seventh
- What intervals make a minor seventh chord?
- Root, minor third, perfect fifth, minor seventh
- What intervals make a dominant seventh chord?
- Root, major third, perfect fifth, minor seventh
- What intervals make a half-diminished seventh chord?
- Root, minor third, diminished fifth, minor seventh
- What intervals make a fully diminished seventh chord?
- Root, minor third, diminished fifth, diminished seventh
- What is a 9th chord?
- An extended chord containing the root, third, fifth, seventh, and ninth intervals
- What is an 11th chord?
- An extended chord containing root through seventh plus the eleventh interval
- What is a 13th chord?
- An extended chord containing root through seventh plus the thirteenth interval