Posts Tagged ‘minor 3rd’

The Music Theory of Relativity

One of life’s injustices:  you don’t get to choose your relatives! As in life, music comes with relatives.  Every major chord has a relative minor – or you could say every minor chord has a relative major.  Likewise, scales have relatives as well.  In fact, entire keys have relatives!  There’s no escaping them – they’re […]

Basic Chord Theory – Triads

The most basic chord in music is the Triad – or three-note chord.  In practice, we don’t actually call them triads – instead, we reference triads as simply major or minor chords – examples:  C  Dmi  Emi F  G  Ami.  There are times when two-note chord fragments are useful for keeping multi-instrument arrangements clean sounding.  […]

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