Chords are an essential part of music harmony, and since violins have four strings, you may be wondering if and how violins can play chords. While string instruments, like guitars, are often tasked...
Category: Chords
A Slash Chord is a type of chord symbol in music that indicates a chord played with a specific root/bass note on the bottom. In this article, we'll discuss the practical applications of slash chords...
The Harmonic Major Scale is probably the least know of the 4 main heptatonic scales (Major, Melodic Minor, Harmonic Minor, Harmonic Major). As we've done with the other scales listed above, in this...
Inspired by my Chords of the Melodic Minor Scale article, I would like to present chords based on harmonizing other heptatonic scales. In this article, we'll discuss the chords of the Harmonic...
How many possible chords are there in music? This is a question I remember thinking about when I started learning music theory but have never answered. Until now! Warning: This is some...
When thinking diatonically in functional harmony, we harmonize and build chords based on the Diatonic Scale (Major Scale and its modes). This creates strong and common chord progressions. But what...