To many people, minor chord progressions in music “sound sad” while songs in a major key “sound happy”. But for researchers who study how people respond to music, it has always been ...

Looking at it from the point of view of the intervals between the chord tones, the formulas are root + 4 semitones + 3 semitones for a major triad, and root + 3 semitones + 4 semitones for a minor ...

Every chord can be played with the notes in a different order to produce inversions, and three-note chords, or triads, are no exception. Since they contain three notes, you can play triads in three ...

Johnny Cash's Hurt hits way different in A Major, as much so as Ring of Fire in G Minor. The dissonance in tone between the chords is, ahem, a minor one: simply the third note lowered to a flat ...

The chord was C69 – C major, with a major sixth (the note ‘A’) and a major ninth (‘D’) added. “Thanks to this new therapy, the patients’ nightmares decreased significantly, and their positive dreams ...