Daniel Levitin, in his popular bestseller entitled This is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession from 2006, characterizes the perception of the minor chord, which lowers the third of a ...

Like the major chords, minor chords are used throughout every style of music. They’re also some of the easiest shapes to play. The chances are you learned a few minor chords in your first lessons. And ...

Knowing a few chords is essential if you want to be able to play a song. As well as practising the execution, learning the shapes is key For the TABs to these exercises click here Minor chords ('sad ...

Do you associate minor chords with sad music and major chords with happy music? If you do, you probably grew up surrounded by music that follows the basic rules of Western music theory. But not ...

Much of our music, from classical to contemporary, is written in either a major or minor key (with exceptions, such as jazz, which uses neither). For most, a major key conjures up feelings of ...

To begin our discussion on what it is that makes minor chords sad, we will first listen to some examples of the use of minor chords and minor keys that demonstrate breathtaking power to convey deep ...