From The Doobie Brothers to The Smiths, James Brown to Metallica, 7th barre chords are fundamental for playing with more ...

The two most important chord types in music are major and minor: generally, major chords sound bright and happy; minor chords sound dark and sad. Sus chords are a special kind of chord that are ...

About three quarters of the way through the first movement the music climbs to a point of high tension, and at that moment a chord rings out: it fixes something essential about the piece ...

A cadence is formed by two chords at the end of a passage of music. Sometimes the final cadence of a piece in a minor key ends with a major chord instead of the expected minor. This effect is ...