Some combinations will sound better than others, but it's all about trial and error. Playing these chords in any order will give you a result that sounds in key and will sound relatively good. Here are all the chords in the key of D major. This is because E is the root note of the chord that we want, so we have to use the E major scale to find the notes in that chord.

So therefore, to get E minor chord, we'd take the E major scale. If we wanted to build the next chord (Eminor), we'd take the minor spelling, and the D major scale above, and do the same process. If we take a 1, 3, 5 major spelling, and we wanted to build a D major chord, we'd count the: To do this, you would count up notes in the D major scale. Seeing as we're using the D major scale, we'll use the spellings above, as they are, to get the chords of the D major scale. If you wanted to create a minor chord, using the minor scale to count your notes, you could drop the “b3” on the minor spelling and diminished spelling, and add a #3 to the major spelling. The chord spellings are used to create chords from the major scale. If not, you can use chord spellings to work them out. If you know your chords, you'll be able to play the D major scale now. To get the chords in the D major scale, you want to use the major formula. When you have the formula above, you can plug it into the D major scale (listed in green).

Minor: Minor, Diminished, Major, Minor, Minor, Major, Major.Major: Major, Minor, Minor, Major, Major, Minor, Diminished.

D flat major scale chords