Here’s how it works. 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 ...

This is the kind of thing you hear on the radio every day, and possibly the genres that rely the most on regular major and minor diatonic triads. This palette of chords can produce millions of ...

In theory, the name of a chord should describe its content, especially if it differs from the root-3rd-5th of a standard ...

and the chords follow a pattern of (from steps I through VII) major, minor, minor, major, major, minor, diminished. So – as represented by the bold text in the above diagram – a I-IV-V in C ...

When it comes to guitar chords, it all begins with basic ones that are called either major (use just the letter of the chord, eg E for E major) or minor (reduced to the letter plus m, eg Em for E ...

you’ll see that every major chord has a minor reflection, (shown in the inner circle) which contains all the same notes as its major counterpart. Chord vi is the minor reflection, or ‘relative minor’ ...

The major key and the minor key, which will begin on a different ... based on these degrees of the scale make different kinds of chords. These chromatic alterations have been the basis of a ...

Having played the piano for most of my exceedingly long life (Mozart was like a little brother), there is absolutely no doubt in my mind that major and minor chords and the music based upon them are ...

Picture: Getty Images So we know David played a ‘secret chord’, whatever that may be. The next part of the verse explains this a little further... ‘it goes like this’. The fourth, fifth, minor fall ...