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Related chords - guitar lessons by Kirk Lorange - author of the bestselling guitar instruction book PlaneTalk

The central, sturdiest, structure of Music is the KEY. How do you define the word KEY? I like to see it as a "family of 7 notes and 7 chords". The notes are those of the major scale, and the chords are those built on the scale notes. The best way, I've found, to think of a scale is to think of it as a circle, like a clock. As coincidence would have it, there are 12 notes in total, just as there are 12 hours on a clock, so the analogy works well. A major scale, however, makes use of only 7 of those 12, so there are going to be some gaps... see entire guitar lesson