Most of us who have done musical training will have heard the term relative used to describe the relationship between two keys - a major and its relative minor. Two relatives is a pretty small family, so lets invite everyone to the family reunion!
Rather than looking at the relationships between keys, we're going to look at the way we can build up a collection of chords that belong to the same family as one original chord by using extensions.

A fantastic song for those willing to try a difficult key and some interesting chord extensions. Luckily, the song repeats itself over and over, so try playing along with the track and experiment with some rhythm variations - listen out for elements already in the track that you can borrow from. Check out the video for the tutorial!

Hi!

I'm Dion, founder and tutor at Counterpoint Music. "Founder" seems like a very important title, so it's worth explaining why I started this teaching studio in the first place.

I grew up in rural Queensland (no-one likes to mention the word "Gympie") on a 140 acre property full of bush and local native fauna. I would wake up to kangaroos hopping around on dewy grass and the songs of the Butcher birds and Magpies. I had so much to explore outside, and yet I was always drawn to the old dusty piano that sat in our study, rarely played.