Articles tagged with: "chordinversions"
Minor Sixth Interval: The Melancholic Beauty
The minor sixth interval spans eight semitones and creates a distinctive melancholic yet beautiful sound. This emotionally expressive interval appears prominently in romantic music, jazz harmony, and contemporary songwriting, serving …
Dominant Seventh Chord
Explore the dominant seventh chord - the tension-filled four-note chord built on the fifth scale degree that drives harmonic motion and creates powerful resolutions in music.
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Major Chords: The Building Blocks of Happy Music
Major chords are fundamental building blocks of music with a bright, happy sound. This article explores their structure (root, major third, perfect fifth), inversions, extensions, and applications across genres, providing …
Secondary Dominants: Adding Color and Direction to Chord Progressions
Secondary dominants are powerful harmonic tools that add color, tension, and forward momentum to chord progressions. By temporarily "tonicizing" non-tonic chords, secondary dominants create brief harmonic detours that enrich musical …