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Old Nov 24 2007, 10:18 AM
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Hi Máté! How are you? I'm sorry I really am a terrible teacher, I've hardly ever got anything for you...

It's a good question. What I will show you when I have some time (I've prepared two of the three lessons and this is the third, but I want you to get them all at the same time), is about dominant/tonic relationships, and these will certainly help you with this. Often the chord you start on is only important because of its relationship to what comes next.
But basically there's no real rule about what chord to start on, but there are some strong relationships that mean that most of the time, you would either start on I, V or IV. However there are progressions by Bach that start on a chord that is actually foreign to the main key. I think that the only chord you'd better avoid starting with is vii for the moment.

Hopefully you will understand this all better as time goes on. I promise the next lessons will come soon...

Matt
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