Family Chords

Chord Theory

In every musical scale(Major or Minor) there are three principal chords, which are known as tonic, dominant and sub-dominant.

Each major scale also has a relative minor scale.

Chords of both scales may be used for each scale of them.

For example C major scale has C, G and F chords. Am is the relative minor scale  to C major. Am scale has Am, Em and Dm chords. Thus all these six chords may be used in a song  whether this is in C scale or in Am scale. 

So you need to  learn chords of a major scale along with chords of its relative minor scale.

Major Chords				Relative Minor Chords
C scale	C	G	F	Am scale	Am	Em	Dm
C#/Db scale	C#/Db	G#/Ab	F#/Gb	A#m/Bbm scale	A#m/Bbm	Fm	D#m/Ebm
D scale	D	A	G	Bm scale	Bm	F#m/Gbm	Em
D#/Eb scale	D#/Eb	A#/Bb	G#/Ab	Cm scale	Cm	Gm	Fm
E scale	E	B	A	C#m/Dbm scale	C#m/Dbm	G#m/Abm	F#m/Gbm
F scale	F	C	A#/Bb	Dm scale	Dm	Am	Gm
F#/Gb scale	F#/Gb	C#/Db	B	D#m/Ebm scale	D#m/Ebm	A#m/Bb	G#m/Ab
G scale	G	D	C	Em scale	Em	Bm	Am
G#/Ab scale	G#/Ab	D#/Eb	C#/Db	Fm scale	Fm	Cm	A#m/Bbm
A scale	A	E	D	F#m/Gbm scale	F#m/Gbm	C#m/Dbm	Bm
A#/Bb scale	A#/Bb	F	D#/Eb	Gm scale	Gm	Dm	Cm
B scale	B	F#/Gb	E	G#m/Abm scale	G#m/Abm	D#m/Ebm	C#m/Dbm