I'm just starting to have a bash at improvisation from the beginning. I'm going to have to take it really slow and steady, such is my ability to confuse myself. I've been given a chart with chords on it and told to write in the basic triad/7 for each chord and start to play around that.
I've never been very good at chord theory and always get confused as to whether I should use the scale of the chord or of the key that the piece is written in, and that's before I get to learning any progressions (and that can certainly wait until I've got a grip on this bit).
But what's really puzzling me is the difference between, say, G7 and Gmaj7. I know the former involves F natural and the latter uses F#, and I know the G major scale uses F#. But when would a G scale/key involve F natural, and how do I work it out? I know how to build a major scale (T,T,S/T,T,T,T,S/T), and if you do that with G major then you get F# as the 7th anyway. I just don't understand. :crying:
I've never been very good at chord theory and always get confused as to whether I should use the scale of the chord or of the key that the piece is written in, and that's before I get to learning any progressions (and that can certainly wait until I've got a grip on this bit).
But what's really puzzling me is the difference between, say, G7 and Gmaj7. I know the former involves F natural and the latter uses F#, and I know the G major scale uses F#. But when would a G scale/key involve F natural, and how do I work it out? I know how to build a major scale (T,T,S/T,T,T,T,S/T), and if you do that with G major then you get F# as the 7th anyway. I just don't understand. :crying: