Originally Posted by: mikefsm

Just to elaborate a bit more, I wasn't talking about C major scale, I was talking about the C Major Chord that I learned on the first lessons from the level 1 Fundamentals for example.

So, what I mean is that this C Major he knows it as Do

The D Major chord he knows it as Re

E Major he knows it as Mi

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That's wrong. Or at best, I've never heard it used that way. Especially considering there is a very specific accepted usage for those terms called solfege.

The solfege syllables "Do Re Mi Fa Sol La Ti" can refer to a movable system or a fixed system. But they always refer to scale degrees and not chords. We have a system for identifying chord relationships called Roman Numeral analysis.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solfege

Most people regard it as movable. The practical result of this is that it is synonymous with the major scale.

The solfege lines up with any & all major scales.

Do (root)[br]Re (2nd)[br]Mi (major 3rd)[br]Fa (4th)[br]So (5th)[br]La (major 6th)[br]Si or Ti (major 7th)

So, if C is the root note, then it is a C major scale.

C - Do (root)[br]D - Re (2nd)[br]E - Mi (major 3rd)[br]F - Fa (4th)[br]G - So (5th)[br]A - La (major 6th)[br]B - Si or Ti (major 7th)

But, if D is the root note, then it is a D major scale.

D - Do (root)[br]E - Re (2nd)[br]F# - Mi (major 3rd)[br]G - Fa (4th)[br]A - So (5th)[br]B - La (major 6th)[br]C# - Si or Ti (major 7th)

And so on. I cover this in my tutorial on the major scale.

https://www.guitartricks.com/tutorial.php?input=363

Thanks to ManXcat the link!

[quote=mikefsm]So music chords are universal but it will be tricky to talk to someone else if I call a chord C major while other people called them Do and so on.... shouldn't the names be all the same worldwide?

Yes, they should. And they are. :) This is why learning music theory is important. So we have a universally understood set of concepts in order to identify & communicate about music.

I have a tutorial that covers the method for identifying & labelling chord relationships, called Roman Numeral analysis.

https://www.guitartricks.com/tutorial.php?input=2387

Hope that helps!