Message 8/11
Date: 14-Jul-00 @ 04:38 PM -
RE: My dumb post
Maybe make a little chart of a keyboard and put an X on every note you use until the pattern of whole-steps and half-steps sorta leaps out at you.
I --> ii = whole step
ii --> iii = whole step
iii --> IV = half step
IV --> V = whole step
V --> vi = whole step
vi --> vii = whole step
vii --> I = half step
In your example, how many notes does the C minor 7 and the E flat Major have in common. What happens when you add a 6th to that E flat Major? When you're building chords out of a major scale, what's the only one with a flatted fifth (diminished)?
Compare the pattern of notes you're using to the pattern of notes in a major (or minor, the relative minor scale starts on the vi of the major) scale. That should point you at the root note.