Surely you have already met previously unknown chord designations in tablatures and notes like this: Am, E, G. These designations are designed to facilitate the process of reading chords, speeding it up, and also making tablatures more visual. It is much easier to read and comprehend the combination Am than to read "A minor". Although an unprepared person will certainly not understand these designations on the fly, so we will try to explain everything in more detail.
Instructions
Step 1
Everything is really simple. According to European traditions, it is customary to call notes by Latin letters. And here is a list showing how the note is read in the European version:
Do is C;
Re is D;
Mi is E;
Fa is F;
Salt is G;
La is A;
C equals H, and C flat equals B.
Step 2
In modern music, for example, in jazz, one can often find the so-called playing on "digital", which is a simple sheet of music, which is divided into measures. Each measure should contain a key or chord designation (well, it's more convenient for someone). Thus, the musician sees the harmonious sequence of the performed composition, which he accompanies or to which he improvises. Such recording is very convenient, especially if you are a session musician and you need to play a whole concert after just a couple of rehearsals.
Step 3
And now back to the notation. Major chords are designated by a capital letter of the Latin alphabet. C major is C, D major is D, and so on.
Step 4
Minor chords are denoted in the same way, only the lowercase letter "m" is attributed to their name.
Step 5
There are also seventh chords. There are only seven types of them:
Major minor - Ammaj7 or AmΔ;
Major major - Amaj7 or AΔ;
Minor minor - Am7;
Small major - A7;
Increased - A5 + / maj7;
Reduced - Ao;
Small reduced - AmØ or Am5- / 7.
Step 6
Other chords: the numbers in the chords indicate the degree of the given scale, the signs "+" and "-" next to the number indicate that this degree is increased or decreased. That's all the wisdom of reading chords.
