turning scales into chords

i wonder, with turning scales into chords, i sort of understand scales and intervals, but when turning into chords, i heard there be information on the g,f, c and b chord in the fundamentals 2 video lesson. i wonder, i dont know the scales for b,c,d,f or g so where are these? so i can work out how to change the scale into a chord. are there some other turorials to guide me?
regards
david robertson

Hi David...
Welcome to GT..
Try the ADVANCED SEARCH box.. Select the "focus" box and the "difficulty box" then scroll down to "scales".. type in "major scales"

I'm not familiar with all the lessons here yet, but do a search for "Understanding the Major Scale".

Every chord type has a formula.

All formulas refer to numbered steps of the major scale, it's the basis for a lot of basic music theory.

Here is a brief way or breaking this all down. Hopefully this makes sense. :)

All western music starts with the major scale. The scale is made up of seven notes, and those seven notes each have a tonality and value that allows you to build a chord from each note. We will use C major, and here are the values for each chord in the scale.

C - major
D - minor
E - minor
F - major
G - major
A - minor
B - diminished

These are all based on triads for each scale degree. You can play all these chords in any order and in whatever way you wish and the tonality will still be in C major. Each scale degree has a tonality as I stated that is either major, minor, or diminished.

Cool?

I made a tutorial on this topic some time ago. These are the basic jazzchords in so called " diatonic chord progressions " - This tutorial is based on 4th chords - but the system actually is the same with triads.

http://www.guitartricks.com/tutorial.php?input=551

Greetings

HP