Step 3: It sounds different due to the minor third interval between the D and the F. The quality of the third - major or minor - determines whether the triad is a major or minor chord. Here, the minor ...

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Step 3: To make the chord bigger, we need to add more notes, continuing to stack notes on top of our basic triad, keeping the same interval of a third (two notes) between each additional note. So we ...

Terms such as ‘altered’ and ‘extended’ chords are relatively simple to explain. Extended chords add other notes from the scale to the existing root-3rd-5th triad (for example, C-E-G), so if we add a ...

“Major: A Major chord is a triad with a root, a Major third and a perfect fifth. Major chords are indicated using either only the root note, or the root note followed by M or maj. For instance, F, FM, ...

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