The Major Scale Song
A key is a harmonic system based on a scale:
G – A – B – C – D – E – F# – G
Here are seven chords and scales:
Reorganizing the scales into “Natural Order.”
1-4-7-3-6-2-5-1
Practice Study:
Natural Order harmonization shows how Subdominant, Dominant and Tonic chords function. You can hear parts of the progression in the “Prelude in C” by Johann Sebastian Bach’s “Well-Tempered Clavier” and in Jerome Kern’s, “All the Things You Are.”
From the book, “Straight Ahead Jazz For Banjo” by Pat Cloud