and I've taken to breaking down the formula of the scale degrees
I was just doing the minor (barre; 6 strings) shape and I wrote it down like this:
I, V, I, mIII, V, I
is that the right way to write a minor third?
or is it bIII?
or are you supposed to just write it as III and remember that because it's minor chord then the III is minor?
one of the latter ways (mIII or bIII) makes more sense to me; and is helping me to grasp these various formulas and how they are interrelate with one another.
I started out writing it as bIII then I found my self just abbreviating "minor III" to mIII
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I just realized that a minor chord in a progression is built off the relative minor scale relative to the Major key I'm in;
or vice versa if it's a minor key song
it's funny how stuff is right in front of your face but doesn't actually occur to you
