Pickup Music’s lesson examines triads ... Starting at 1:30 in the video, Molly plays this example, cycling up and down through the triad shapes. We can turn triad shapes into an instant lead ...

A diminished triad is built on the 7th note ... It interrupts the flow of the music and sounds unfinished. Listen to this example of an interrupted cadence and follow along with the notation ...

For example, G7 is made by taking the major triad of G (G - B - D) and adding an F (G - B - D - F). A cadence is formed by two chords at the end of a passage of music. Sometimes the final cadence ...