You know the Major Scale good now? Well time to learn the chords, the next step to writing songs. 7 notes in the major scale, seven chords. Okay, a chord consists of the root, 3rd, and 5th from the note you start on. Since in my last lesson we learned the G Major scale we'll learn the chords in the key of G. The 1st, 4th, and 5th note of a major scale make major chords. All other notes, except the 7th, make minor chords. The 7th note of a major scale makes a dominant. Here are the chords in G Major:

G Major

A Minor

B Minor

C Major

D Major

E Minor

F# Dominant

Heres a little excersise to learn the first two notes of every chord in G.