The C major scale is made up of all the white notes on a piano keyboard, but other major scales (starting on different notes) include black notes - G major, for example, contains one sharp note, F#, ...

Cadd9 (see Example 4) on the other hand simply adds the 9th to an existing C major (or minor) chord. I’ve included a few more ...

The major key and the minor key, which will begin on a different note. This is known as the relative minor. So G major, for example has a key signature of one sharp, but this is also the key ...

Dissonant chords are combinations that sound jarring, like middle C and the C sharp above (a minor second). The reason why we should like one but not the other has long vexed both musicians and ...

Rachmaninov - Prelude in C sharp minor. The young Rachmaninov knocked out this pianistic pinnacle aged just 19 years old. ... Unbelievably, the chords are so thick in the prelude's main theme that ...

The major key and the minor key, which will begin on a different note. This is known as the relative minor. So G major, for example has a key signature of one sharp, but this is also the key ...