Jimmy Page often employed dissonant chords with Led Zep and you can, too. You don't even need to know the name of the chord ...

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

Whether you're checking into the Hotel California or sheltering from the cold November Rain, the harmonic minor scale is right there with you. This lesson demystifies it with examples you can use now.

These chords, and their minor key versions, are ubiquitous in tonal music of all kinds. In particular, we find that virtually every piece of tonal music, in all styles, ends with the movement of IV-I ...

The solution was to raise the seventh note to give the harmonic minor - the notes in G harmonic minor are G, A, B b , C, D, Eb, F#. The V-I is now D-Gm or D7-Gm, (making the V chord a seventh chord, ...

The Beatles were big proponents of the 4-chord harmonic progression (Image credit: David Redfern / Getty) If we re-order these same chords, we can hear another popular sequence: C major - A minor - F ...

Frequently, Kurt Cobain utilized harmonic sequences that moved by a Major or minor 3rd interval, but in a manner that does not comport with predictable chord behaviors that progress between ...

Consider two chords, C-major and C-minor: C-Major and C-minor chords differ by only one-half note – E and E-flat. A small difference with a big impact. The difference in sound is due to the interval ...