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AP Music Theory 1.4 Music Terminology, Terms & Symbols. In the key of D flat major, the chord shown above is what?

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Thank you We sneak in and here's your shmoop du

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jour Brought to you by minor keys One of these

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days they'll see an r rated movie Okay here's our

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question in the key of d flat major the cord

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shone above is what This cord right there And hear

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our potential answers numeral here All right right away We

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can see that all of our potential answers have something

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in common They're all four chords of some kind That

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means that all we need to do is figure out

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if the shown cord is diminished minor major or augmented

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out I'll salute it if it salutes back It's a

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major know Alright what we can actually consider is the

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key signature of d flat major And see if all

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of the notes in the cord naturally occur in the

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key now because demonic devices air apparently crucial in music

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theory one on one let's remember the pneumonic for the

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order of flats in a key signature be gum candy

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fruit No one ever said musicians were good at making

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clever demonic so let's also remember the trick toe identifying

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major keys and a flat key signature is toe look

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Att the second toe last flat in said key signature

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Well the second last flat tells us the major key

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For instance if we were in b flat major our

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key signature would have two flats and the second toe

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last flat right here is yet b flat So to

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figure out the key signature for a d flat major

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we just go through our demonic b e and land

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on d for de flat Clever Right then at one

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more flat Teo key signature Teo get g flat And

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there we go That's our five signature for d flat

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major five flats And now that we know d flat

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major contains b flat e flat a flat b flat

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and e flat we can check the notes in our

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court to determine if they exist in the key then

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figure out what type of four chord we have Well

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g flat check We've got one of those b flat

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Yep And d flat that's The key were in So

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that makes sense And bingo that's all the flats in

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our court All of these notes occur in the key

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of d flat major And we know that in a

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major key The forecourt is a major and if we

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look at our answers while we can see that is

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a diminished for cord Bia's a minor for court and

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he is an augmented for board which leaves us just

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with c on ly major for port in the bunch

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Seas are correct Answer that we could have solved that 00:02:31.905 --> [endTime] much faster Ten hut

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