Building guitar chords - using the major scale

Once you know the names of your notes within a Major scale you can start using those notes to build chords. Using a Root (1st  or starting note) 3rd (3rd note in the major scale sequence) and a 5th (5th note in the major scale sequence) you can start finding chords that work in harmony with you scale since the chords a built right from that scale. Root Third Fifth or R 3 5 is your formula for building Major, minor and diminished chords. 

In this video:

1) take a C major scale C D E F G A B C 

2) find the R 3 5 (C E G) 1st note, 3rd note and 5th note

3) Use those 3 notes across the guitar to build an form any  C chord.

Each major scale has 7 notes so you can build  7 basic chords from each note

C E G (Major)

D F A (minor)

E G B (minor)

F A C (Major)

G B D (Major)

A C E (minor)

B D F (diminished)

What you will find is that EVERY major scale has the same order of chords

Major, minor, minor, Major, Major, minor,diminished or simply M m m M M m dim

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