The chords for Fly Me to the Moon start with A minor. A minor chord, for example, is defined as 1 b3 5, still referring to the major scale.īut now that we’re talking about songs in keys, major and minor matter. We’ve just talked about major scales in this book because the notes of the major scale are used to define chords. Here are the notes in the diatonic Circle of Fifths for the key of C. This is called the diatonic Circle of Fifths, meaning, for the key of C, that all the notes used are notes in the key of C. Yay! (The interval from B to F is one fret shy of a perfect fifth neatly creating a short cut over all the sharped/flatted notes.) It indicates the next chord will be F! Not F#. It’s half diminished, meaning it starts with a minor-minor third pair. That is, chords with a perfect fifth between the (1) and 5.īut the seventh chord in the chord scale is different. Now for this case, the interval from C to G is a perfect 5 th, so it makes no difference.Īnd it’s the same for almost all of the other chords, which start with either a major-minor third pair or minor-major third pair. The 5 in that chord is G, so G is the next chord. We can skip them by using the 1 and 5 of the chords to define the fifths, rather than strict, 7 half step, perfect fifths.įor example, in the key of C the first chord is CMaj7. Well almost.īecause we’re playing chords whose notes want to stay in the main scale, we’re not really interested in the chromatic sharps and flats. Many jazz songs use parts of the Circle of Fifths, but Fly Me to the Moon is famous for its chord changes that walk the full circle. In each case the Circle of Fifths provides the harmonic structure discovered by Pythagoras. Those can be used as notes in a song, or chords in a progression, or changing keys. (Each sharped note has a corresponding flatted note not shown.) Here are those notes, each a fifth higher than the previous one. The Circle of Fifths is exactly the sequence of notes discovered by Pythagoras, and can be reconstructed using our modern scale by continuously going up a fifth from a starting note.
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