Chords, scales, and harmony are subjects you could spend your whole life studying – and perhaps that complexity and sense of infinite possibilities is what keeps most of us hooked.

This bright but unusual sounding mode became popular among shredders after Joe Satriani and Steve Vai used it in the 80s. Here, Stuart Ryan explains what gives the Lydian mode its signature sound ...

Why are Minor Chords Perceived as “Sad”? Part 1 article by Kurt Ellenberger, published on July 8, 2025 at All About Jazz.

We can build upon the C Major triad chord in our previous tutorial by adding additional notes from the scale. You can add a seventh to the end of the first, third, fifth formula (C-E-G) to create an ...

Get to grips with the three-note chords that could be game-changers for your playing – just like Hendrix, Mayer and Frusciante When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Triad Partners will host its annual Scale Summit April 8-10, uniting financial advisors for three days of learning, networking, and growth strategies.

Take a normal major or minor triad - it doesn't matter which - and move its third up to play a perfect fourth, and you have a suspended 4 chord, or sus4 (root-5-7).

Each piece of music, be it a song, symphony or concerto, is written in a specific ‘key’. But what do we mean when we refer to a musical key, why are there 24 of them, and how do composers choose which ...

Sixth chords represented a suitable 4-note solution to this problem for the reasons described above: You can add a Major-6th note to any Major triad without fundamentally altering its character.

A Triad man is going viral for his rendition of the National Anthem at Sunday's High Point Rockers home game. Some are calling it the "worst rendition" of all time, beating out both Roseanne Barr ...