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Old 26th January 2012   #9
Travis3Miller
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one of my favourite sites is

all-guitar-chords.com

even tho it's a guitar site, you can use it to apply to some other areas of music; if you know your chords, scales on other instruments.

A major does not correctly fit into the E natural minor scale.

If you look at all the notes that produces the E minor scale its:

E, F#, G, A, B, C, D

These are always the notes that are used to form chords with in the E Natural Minor scale. A MAJOR uses a C# as it's third.

Realize, the relative major of E Minor is G - Major! If you use G as your tonic or root note and start you progression with G Major instead of E minor , your song will have a much more lifted feel to it.

Of course there are always little exceptions that are super deep into theory. For instance, Beethoven's Fur Elise is technically composed in C Major, but it has sooo many accents in it that it basically uses every note possible. LOL
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