Sus chords nearly always sound good when played before a major or minor chord that uses the same root note, Bsus4 to B, or Asus4 to A, for example.

The G replaces the 3rd (F#), meaning sus chords are neither major nor minor; it’s all about which chord you resolve to afterwards (that’s where the ‘suspended’ part comes from).

As you may have guessed from the name, triad chords contain three notes. For a major triad we need the root, major third and perfect fifth. For minor triads we need both a root and fifth, but this ...

This example moves between minor and minor 7th chords, so you can hear the difference between them in a musical context. Barre across two strings in the Dm7. Chord progression with minor 7ths This ...

Minor: A Minor chord is also a triad, containing a root, Minor third and a perfect fifth. The notation for Minor chords is to have the root note followed by m or min. For example, Emin, F#m and Bbm ...

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.

Circle of fifths. Picture: Classic FM So where does chord vi come into it? Well, if you look back at the circle of fifths above, you’ll see that every major chord has a minor reflection, (shown in the ...

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 ...

Chuck would have called the B7 the “money chord” in that song. In the classic rock song “Louie Louie” (in the key of A) there are only three chords: A, D and Em. E minor is a V minor chord.