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Fretboard Wizard F3 Quiz, Question 9
Hi Everyone,
For those experience with the Fretboard Wizard course, I have a question about F3 Quiz, Question 9 which is:
“If you were to make a chord matrix for the key of G major, what would the 2nd and 3rd rows of the matrix look like?”
G major scale looks like this:
G A B C D E F (G) – as listed on the matrix to the corresponding lesson to the quiz (but I think F should be F#)
The second and third rows of the chord matrix of G Major are based off of the 3rd and 5th notes, B and D respectively.
Therefore the 2nd and the 3rd rows I believe should look like this:
B – C# – D# – E – F# – G# – A# – B
D – E – F# – G – A – B – C# – D
However, the answers to the quiz question do not include these options:
Answer 1: (Row 2: B, C, D, E, F#, G, A, B) (Row 3: D, E, F#, G, A, B, C, D)
Answer 2: (Row 2: A, B, C, D, E, F#, G, A) (Row 3: B, C, D, E, F#, G, A, B)
Answer 3: (Row 2: D, E, F#, G, A, B, C, D) (Row 3: F#, G, A, B, C, D, E, F#)
Answer 4: (Row 2: B, C, D, E, F, G, A, B) (Row 3: D, E, F, G, A, B, C, D)
Can someone tell me what the correct answer is and where I’m off on my logic?
Thank you!
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4 Replies
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Answer 1 is the correct answer @schmiderific , (good catch on your part about the F#). So the rows of the chord matrix are based on the 1st position scale (G) notes. So you continue to build the matrix based on that scale’s (G) notes – not the scale notes of the 3rd and 5th position’s scales.
Hope that makes sense – good luck my friend – enjoy the journey🤩
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This reply was modified 4 years, 2 months ago by Bill_Brown.
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Ah, makes sense … thanks Bill!
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This reply was modified 4 years, 2 months ago by
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Hello @schmiderific
There is a lot of confusion now a days, especially among guitar players, about what a “key” is. People refer to the “key” of C major and the “key” of Am. Neither of those are a key. Since they are in the same key, they are 2 different names for the same thing. Obviously, this would lead to confusion. A “key” is the specific set of 7 notes. C major is in the key of “no sharps or flats” (no one ever came up with unique names for the keys, they just used the name for the major, or Ionian, mode of the key).
The reason I bring this up is because you have listed different keys. G major has 1 sharp. Therefore the next 2 lines would have to have only 1 sharp. We are simply using a trick to write out the chords within this key. But you must use the same set of notes, otherwise, you are going “out of key”, which is called “non-diatonic”.
MG 😀
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Hi Mike, new guy here still getting used to the web interface and just saw a notification for your reply.
Thank you for taking the effort to explain this so clearly to me. I appreciate it!
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