Topic: Learning Harmony for Songwriting
Knowing about harmony is very helpful when writing songs.
In this post, I will talk about harmonizing the major scale.
You can think of a harmonized scale as a scale played in terms
of chords.
The harmonized major scale follows this order:
maj min min maj maj min dim
Note:
maj = major
min = minor
dim = diminished
So, for example, in the key of C major (CDEFGABC),
the chords that are diatonic, or belonging to the key are:
Cmaj Dmin Emin Fmaj Gmaj Amin Bdim
Cool? Using these chords would be a good starting
point for the key of C.
This may seem confusing but we can talk about this more!