Written by: Eneasz

List of Diatonic Chords

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This is a list of Diatonic Chords in all 12 keys as a reference. This only applies to the major mode. None of the minor keys are included here, but I might include them in the future, although it seems a bit redundant because of the slight difference. I posted the order of the keys according to the circle of fifths progression.

C major
C major

G major
G major

D major
D major

A major
A major

E major
E major

B major
B major

F# major - Same as Gb

Db major - Same as C#

Ab major

Eb major

Bb major

F major
F major

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Aug 27, 2007

2 Comments, Comment or Ping

Eproducstions

I have a question on these. Can you post an article on theory itself. How should it be used? Can you take certain progressions as and literally translate them into songs?

Aug 27th, 2007
asiu

You can actually figure everything out if you read through all the articles on the site, but I’ll simplify it cause there’s just too much info.
Take a look at these two pages, and look at the boxes at the end of the articles

http://www.musicjot.com/music/chord-progressions/
http://www.musicjot.com/music/chord-progressions-minor/

if you look at the boxes on the bottom, you’ll see a whole bunch of roman numerals with arrows. These are used to represent chords in whatever key you’re in. The arrows just show you where you can go next, its sort of like a guide and you use it to make up whatever chord progression you want.

So, let’s say you want to use a popular chord progression such as:

I - IV - I - V

if you’re in the key of C (look up at the chords here), that will mean your chord progression is

C - F - C - G

if you’re in the key of F, it will be : F - Bb - F - C….

and that’s pretty much it. the roman numerals are just a way to translate chord progressions in all keys. Instead of chord names, you use numbers. that way you can transpose at any time and play in any key cause you know the chord progression….

now, how you get a chord progression is all up to you. the two pages i linked just give you a guide so you know that you shouldn’t go, for example, from a “vi” to a “iii”. but honestly, it’s pretty much all been done by now and its just about how creative you want to get.

If you get all this and you just want some examples of common chord progressions i can give you some of those too. You also might wanna check out this article to see what chords you can go to in sequence:

http://www.musicjot.com/music/all-chord-progressions/

Aug 28th, 2007