Unless you happen to be making the most minimal techno, it’s inevitable that, pretty soon into your music production journey, you’ll be using chords. That’s to say that you’ll be using playing ...

When it comes to triads, you tend to know exactly where you are with the basic constructs of major or minor. Take the 3rd of a major triad, drop it by a semitone, and to quote a well known song, it ...

In this frankly epic tutorial we're concentrating solely on chords and chordal ideas, and the following will act as a compendium of great chord fingerings. The audio examples start with simple chords ...

Daniel Levitin, in his popular bestseller entitled This is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession from 2006, characterizes the perception of the minor chord, which lowers the third of a ...

Creating suspense in music can be achieved in a number of different ways, but for instant suspense gratification, there's nothing quite like a diminished chord. It's a fairly safe bet to suggest that ...

Once you know how to construct major and minor scales on the piano, you can take the notes within them and start stacking them up together to play chords. While it’s possible to form simple two-note ...