The major 7th chord is produced by adding a fourth note to a three-note major chord. Let’s look at how you do this. 1. Making a major chord. This is the C major scale. As you can see there are seven ...

Here are five 7th chords, the theory underpinning them, and some ideas for modifying them. They are so commonplace that we take the theory behind them for granted.

It's time to throw some shapes on the fretboard, navigating using the CAGED system, and deploying chord choices that makes players like John Frusciante such great rhythm players News Today's news ...

For slash chord notation, remember that the first letter is the triad and the second letter is the bass note. Therefore the A/B chord would be an A major triad (A C# E) with a B bass note. The other ...

The study demonstrates that while major chord usage has been stable in songwriting over the last 50 years, minor chord usage has been growing. And while it might seem that an increase in minor chords ...

To many people, minor chord progressions in music “sound sad” while songs in a major key “sound happy”. But for researchers who study how people respond to music, it has always been ...

They are so commonplace that we take the theory behind them for granted. Here are five 7th chords, the theory underpinning them, and some ideas for modifying them ...