Can you help me with these guitar phrases?

Question

Octave?
Put a seventh above it?
Thats 3 thirds
a minor triad or something like that?

Answer 1

OK! You are talking about intervals here. Not phrases. An octave is the same letter name note repeated at twice the frequency or half the frequency. Play the two E strings on your guitar. They're two octaves apart. Now play the E string with the D string. That's a minor 7th. What you appear to be trying to figure out is hard to tell exactly, but if you play an a MAJOR chord with a minor 7th added above the root, you will have a Major/Minor 7th chord, more commonly called a "7th" chord. Ex - play and E chord at the first position, and pick up the note off the D (4th) string; - that's an E7th.
What you REALLY need to do to figure this all out is study reading music.

Answer 2

Octave means an 8th above or below. For instance a high c and a low c

Seventh above means adding the seventh to a chord like playing a then adding G# to that chord. The seventh is the seventh note in the major scale of the chord. In an a chord you have a , b ,c#, D, e, F#, G#,a so G# is the seventh.

Not sure what you mean by that's thirds, but a third above would be just like a seventh above where you take the third note as in the key of c you have c,d,e,f,g,a,b,c e is a third above c. You could also say a third is two whole tones above.

a Minor triad is a three note minor chord as in am (a,c, e) The third is flat. Whereas in A major the triad is a c# e.

This is really basic music theory. It can be quite confusing at first. I recommend buying a book or at least asking for help from anyone you know who has training in this area.

Answer 3

well all of those are intervals. you see a scale has 7 notes, c for example has C,D,E,F,G,A,B. You go to G then repeat the letters again in the order of the Alphabet. Well an octave is an 8th. So an octave above C is still C but with a higher pitch. When you count intervals,you include the first note. So a seventh above C would be B. Well, a 3rd is a 3rd step in the scale. In the key of C, the 3rd would be E. A minor triad is a chord where the 3rd note is dropped a half step. So in C, a major triad would be CEG(1st,3rd,and 5th intervals).If you made that minor, you would as i said drop the 3rd a half step. So you would now have CD#G. Hopefully this helped some.

Answer 4

An octave is the same note just a pitch higher ( open 6th string is an E as well as 6th string 12th fret, same note just higher pitch). A seventh is the seventh note usually when building a chord in a certain key ( C7=1,3,5,7 or C,E,G,B - the B is the seventh in the C major key C,D,E,F,G,A,B,C and C is the 8th or octave. A minor triad is built like a major triad (1,3,5) with the exception of the flat 3rd (1,b3,5). So C major is C,E,G where C minor is C,Eb,G. Oh yeah and triad just means three as in three notes.

Answer 5

Octave: From key C: c,d,e,f,g,a,b,c Always start with 1
Put a seventh above: Count from the root note, place 7th note. Always start with 1.
3rds: Two kinds. Major and minor third.
Major: two whole steps above the root. Four frets on your guitar. The interval between 3rd and 2nd string is major third.
Thirds: F-A, G-B
Minor triad:Key C: No minor third from the root(C), this is major.
Go up one step to D, choose the minor third interval D-F.

Go to: http://www.torvund.net/guitar/Theory/04-intervals-thirds:asp
Good luck.

Answer 6

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