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Chords

Three or more tones sounded at the same time are called chord.

This is a chord:

Click on it to hear the notes alone and how they sound together


Look at these examples of chords built on the c note:

The Lute Player by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New YorkWestern music makes a lot of use of chords to accompany melodies and tunes.

Liten to this example:

Greensleeves



Listen to some kinds of chords (all of them on the root of C):


Triads

Major

Minor

Diminished

Augmented

Develop your ability to recognize triads...Triads recognition drill

Seventh chords

Dominant Seventh (7th)

Major Seventh

Minor Seventh

Minor 7+

Diminished Seventh

Half-Diminished Seventh


Other

Suspended

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