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How to Use the Chords of the Major Scale in Hardstyle

When you're making hardstyle, music theory is very important. Every scale has predefined chords to every note.

My notes from this Short

01

The major and minor chords in the scale

The major scale always has the same intervals, which means that if I start that formula in another key, I always have the major key.

If I lay down the notes, the first, two, three, four, five, six, seven and one, each of these notes has a predefined chord. The 1, the 4 and the 5 will always be major, and the 2, the 3 and the 6 will always be minor.

FL Studio piano roll with the C major scale over one octave and the whole and half steps between the notes marked, the base for the chords of the scale in hardstyle
C major in the piano roll: whole steps, with half steps from E to F and from B to C.
02

The diminished chord leads into the next one

The final one will be diminished, which means that there are three spaces between each note. This is a very leading chord, which moves into the next one.

The cool thing is that you can now rearrange whatever notes you want and play a chord progression.

What I use in this video

FL Studio

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