And along the same lines, these are the notes of the D major scale across the neck. We’re going to play through three triads in the key of D. The first shape should feel familiar – it’s a ...

As we already know (if you have read our article on scales) C major uses all of the white notes that we see on our keyboard.

For example, the triads in C major are as follows: Triads can be indicated by Roman numerals of the degrees of the scale. In the jazz styles of Gershwin and Kern, the dominant seventh was often ...