The chances are, you’ll be sitting with a guitar or keyboard in front of ... but we could play around further and change the third chord to D minor. This will place a minor chord on the 3rd ...

In guitar circles, describing a chord as ‘G’ without any other information ... Resolving to D major sounds a bit like The Who, while resolving to D minor sounds a bit like Bach.

All the chords built on other notes in the scale of C are minor, except chord VII - the notes B – D – F, which is diminished. When a seventh is added to a chord this is known as a seventh chord.