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 ...

Happy songs are hard to write. After all, it's much easier to wallow in self-pity over minor chords than to craft an optimistic tune.

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 ...

Blues chords In blues ‘dominant’ 7 chords (A7 or D7 for example) are more common than basic major, minor and sus chords. The A7, D7 and E9 shapes shown here are all you need for a 12-bar blues ...

Seventh chords are not interchangeable with major and minor chords. They have a particular musical function and occur at different places in a phrase, just as adjectives have a different function from ...

Unexpectedly, they found that seventh chords – chords with four different notes rather than the usual three – had an even higher association with positive words, even in the case of minor ...

This stack of 3rds gives us the intervals of a major 3rd (C-E) followed by a minor 3rd (E-G), which makes a bright, happy-sounding C major chord. There are three different notes in a major chord but ...

As stated in the example, these have not been amplified—these are the partials created by the notes played. They are part of the overall sound of the original chord. We can see the partials in a graph ...

Example 3. C9 When we extend a chord beyond the 7th, we start adding the names/numbers from a second octave of the major scale. The 9th (D) is nine notes above the original root when we play a two ...

Seventh chords are not interchangeable with major and minor chords. They have a particular musical function and occur at different places in a phrase, just as adjectives have a different function ...

Seventh chords are not interchangeable with major and minor chords. They have a particular musical function and occur at different places in a phrase, just as adjectives have a different function ...