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The Three Chord Trick
By Buck Cherry
Many classic pop songs have been written using just three chords: for example Route 66, Highway 61, Honky Tonk Women, Shake Rattle & Roll and numerous others. This is known as 'the 3 chord trick'. So how is it done? In musical terms it uses the Root, Subdominant and Dominant chords of the key. What does this mean? here is the scale of C C D E F G A B C Let's take 'Johnny B Goode' as an example. It starts on the Root chord, in this case C, moves to the subdominant (F), back to C, then up to the dominant (G) before resolving back to C. If we look at the scale above, we can that F is the 4th note of the scale and G is the 5th note of the scale. Let's see what happens in the Key of A A B C# D E F# G# A This gives us A as the root, counting up to the 4th note gives us D as the subdominant and the 5th gives us E as the dominant. In practice, the dominant chord is often played as a 7th chord, which resolves nicely back to the Root. On a guitar you can easily find the subdominant by counting up 5 frets from the root chord. Counting up 7 frets from the root gives the dominant. That's all you need to know to write a classic!
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Thank you for this valuable lesson. I have a guitar that is collecting dust. I do not play yet. In high school, I played Alto Sax, Clarinet and Basson. I have a brother who also played Alto Sax and has already started stringing melodies with his guitar. I plan to join him in the near future and will share this intel with him. We are both inspired to play this instrument because our father is a guitarist.
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