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[Piano] What's this called?
sean:
okay thinking about it you are trying to apply the silly things yr piano teaches is telling you to actual music theory and it's completely fucking with what is actual music theory.
i will tell you a few basic things. first off, all a chord is a grouping of 3 notes. you are allowed to have more notes in a chord (note: 7th chords for example!) anyway, "root + 4 + 3", as you describe it, is the fucking definition of a major triad. a major chord is based off a major third (which is 4 semitones) and a minor third (which is 3 semitones). to make a minor triad, you use the opposite, a minor third and then a major third. you have two other types of triads, augmented triads (two major triads) and diminished triads (two minor thirds). diminished triads are the only other type you should worry about, since augmented triads don't really appear in standard tonal music (they don't naturally occur in major or minor scales) whereas diminished triads do (the triad on the leading tone (7th scale degree) in both major and minor is diminished and the super-tonic (2nd) triad in harmonic minor is also diminished, but it's minor in melodic minor (because of the raised 6th scale degree in harmonic minor).
you should probably take a theory course.
ALoveSupreme:
--- Quote from: Eddie 88 on 18 Feb 2010, 03:56 --- C# F G#, D F# A, D# G A#, E G# B, etc.
--- End quote ---
Hah, yeah, dude, you literally wrote out C# maj, D maj, D# maj, and E maj chords right there.
StaedlerMars:
hey, I learned something new from this thread, so it wasn't wasted!
sean:
no but i think reading eddie 88's post damaged my brain to the point where i've lost about a year off my lifespan.
Patrick:
Sean go sit in the corner and don't come out until you're done being a prick. So the guy doesn't know what he's talking about! He asked a question about it and he got an answer and he was enlightened.
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