Every colour on the shelf, from daylight to shadow.
Overview
Fifteen chords live in this folder, each with its formula, its character, and its place in practice. They run from the two-note wall of sound to the fully extended stack — the working vocabulary that progressions are spoken in.
The triads come first: the Major Triad and its dimmed twin the Minor Triad, the unresolved tension of the Diminished Triad and the ever-climbing Augmented Triad. Alongside them sit the Suspended Chords, which hold their breath instead of declaring a third, and the Power Chord, which skips the third entirely.
Stack one more third and you reach the sevenths — the sunlit Major Seventh, the door-leaning Dominant Seventh, the cool Minor Seventh, the falling sorrow of the Half-Diminished Seventh, the four-hinged trapdoor of the Diminished Seventh, and the shadow-and-light Minor-Major Seventh. Past the sevenths lie the colour chords: nostalgic Sixth Chords and the Extended Chords that invite the ninths, elevenths, and thirteenths up to the table.
Related
- Chords & Progressions — the parent index
- Progressions — the chords set in motion
- Scales & Modes — the palette the chords are mixed from