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 ...

We’ve played 3 basic triad chords - Eb for one bar, Gm for one bar and Cm for two bars. The musical idea sounds okay, but with the triads all staying in root position as we move between them ...

Step 1: Let’s illustrate by looking at a piano part playing a repeated rhythmic C minor chord sequence over and over… and over. It sounds pretty boring, as the chord doesn’t change.

4. Chords A chord is defined as two or more notes sounding at the same time, but in basic theory terms, we generally take it to mean three-note chords, or ‘triads’. In Western music, chords are ...

For example, in the scale of C major, the chords are numbered like this: I - C major (notes are C, E and G) II - D minor (notes are D, F and A) III - E minor (notes are E, G and B) ...

Above, we’ve set up some chords to play. As long as every note played is in the same scale, things will tend to sound pretty good together. Notice how our chords are spaced out between scale notes and ...

Propulsive rhythmic themes swept along by avalanches of rapid scales and arpeggios. Beethoven’s piano concertos, composed between 1793 and 1809, stand tall at the center of music history like a ...