Grace 2 Jeff Buckley Year 10 Music Area of Study 3: Popular Music in Context

Learning Objectives  To understand how to read standard chord notation and slash chords  To understand what power chords are  To recognise the chord sequence in the chorus of Grace

Chord Symbols  A note name on its own means a major chord  A note followed by a letter “m” means a minor chord  What is the difference between a major and a minor chord?

Writing chords 1. Look up the key signature of the note 2. Build up a triad on that note 3. Apply the key signature! 4. If minor, make the middle note one semitone lower  Bm  Key sig of B = F #,C #,G #,D #,A #

Write these chords  C  F  G  B  A b  Fm  Dm  E b m

Slash Chords  The letter after the slash indicates which note is at the bottom of the chord  What do you notice about the last chord?

Work out what these chords are

Grace  Write out the chord sequence for the chorus of Grace  Bars  What the score says:  What you have to learn for the exam: Em/F 5 EmEm/E b 5 Em/F 5 EmEm/E b 5 Em F 9 (no 3 rd ) EmEbEb EbEb Em Learn this

POWER CHORDS  Guitar  Root and open 5 th  e.g. E 5  Neither major nor minor  Why?

Power Chords in Grace  In the chorus Em/F 5 EmEm/E b 5 Em/F 5 EmEm/E b 5 Em

Plenary 1. Describe this chord using standard slash notation: 2. Write out a Cm/E b chord 3. What is a power chord? 4. Write out the chord sequence of the chorus of Grace