This Eb minor 11 chord has its root on the fifth string, then ascending we find the minor 3rd (Gb), b7 (Db) and 9th (F) in that order. What differentiates this from an Eb minor 9 chord is the 11th ...

There are no chords as we know them—instead, we find many open fifths and the occasional major or minor thirds or sixths as the only "dissonances" allowed. It may be difficult for us to believe that a ...

Note that the chord of A minor (VI) is the 3rd chord of the sequence, which is a strong bar, subservient only to the 1st bar. If we re-order these same chords, we can hear another popular sequence: ...

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 ...