Just as major chords, minor chords consist of three notes stacked upon one another. You can create it by playing the root, adding the minor third, and the fifth.
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Piano Hack #4 – Minor Chords
Piano Hack #3 – Major Chords
Major chords consist of three notes that are stacked upon one another. The first one is the root. For the C major chord the root is C.
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Jazz Piano – 7-3-6 (minor 2-5-1) Lick
You can approach the creation of a jazz piano lick over a 7-3-6 or minor 2-5-1 chord progression just as you would for a 2-5-1 lick in a major key. You can use
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- chord tones
- arpeggios
- triplets
- a line that moves up and down
- approaches to chord tones.
Here is an example for a lick using these elements that you can use whenever you come across a minor 2-5-1.
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- The first bar consists of notes that are just moving up and down the F major (or D minor) scale, starting on the flatted fifth of the Em7b5 chord, Bb.
The F major scale
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- The last Ab is an approach to the following A, which is the beginning of an arpeggiated A minor 7 chord. The line then moves down again diatonically. The bar ends with another approach.
- This time it moves to the root D of the following Dm7 chord. What follows is a small rhythmical motive with two eighth notes followed by one quarter note, moving down the diatonic scale again. The lick ends on D.
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Jazz Piano – the 7-3-6 (or minor 2-5-1) Chord Progression
Another important chord progression in jazz is the 7-3-6 progression, featuring the diatonic chords of the seventh, third and sixth degree of the major scale. You can also look at it as a minor 2-5-1 progression in the related minor key.
In the key of F the 7-3-6 consists of Em7b5, Am7 and Dm7.
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Piano Hack #2 – Intervals
This Piano Hack is about intervals or the distance between two notes. On the piano you can easily count this distance by counting the keys between two notes. The distance between C and the next E to the right, for example, is four half-steps. It is called a major third.
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