Question About Chords

[Dekudude]

Hi there!

I have a question about chords...

I know how to find Major and Minor chords. (For major, start on the note of the chord (such as C) and then move up 4 keys, including blacks, and then move up three. Voila, C major).

How do you find all of the others? Diminished, Augmented, 7th, Sustained, et cetera? I tried finding examples, but couldn't figure out an easy way to find them all. Thanks in advance!

[ZeldaFan]

Well, i can help with diminished and augmented.

Diminished: start on i.e. C, go up 4, then go up 4 again. It would be C, Eb, Gb
Augmented: start on C, go up 5, then 5 again. It would be C, E, G#

The chords keep their same notes all the time, so C Major would always be CEG, just flat'd and sharp'd

[Dekudude]

The augmented, up 5 + 5, would be C F A#

[ZeldaFan]

sorry, augmented also includes black and white keys. C to E is 5, E to G# is 5

"More specifically, the augmented chord is the triad consisting of a major third and augmented fifth above the root â€" if the root is C, the augmented chord consists of the notes C, E and G#. It can also be thought of as two major thirds stacked on top of one another, and thus resembles a major chord with a raised fifth. " Wikipedia

Hope this helps 

[Davey]

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[Jamaha]

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[Davey]

Your a hypocrite.

[Dekudude]

You're a double hypocrite.

ZeldaFan-- So basically, it's a chord, but the last note in the chord is pushed up a half step? So an A minor would be A, E, F, and a C minor would be C, Eb, G#?

[ZeldaFan]

Right.

I should've said that in the first place... 

[megaman64]

(?? a minor?? isnt that A C E  and C minor C Eb G)? diminished is written as Xdim or sometimes X(with a minus sign/hyphen in the superscript) and augmented chord symbols are Xaug or X+

well as for 7th Chords (ie. X7 where X is amount of black mana spent...jk the chord name) is just a major triad with the seventh note of the root scale but, it is lowered one half-step eg. a D7 chord in root position would be a D F# A C (natural despite being sharp in the key of d major)


and for sustained chords the third of the scale is "replaced" or "raised" so the fourth is played instead...this chord is usually used for a leading into a final chord .... it is written Xsus4 or sometimes just Xsus... eg.  Dsus4 or Dsus would be D G A D  .....u hear this chord then in most music it would go to the root chord (eg. D F# A D)

[Parker2334]

Use this amazing chord calculator!

[Dekudude]

So:

Sustainted - 3rd raised to 4th.
7th - 7th lowered to 6th.

Correct?

[megaman64]

sustained yes but

7th chords depend on major or dominant

in the DM7 (major seventh) case, the octave of the root is "replaced" with the seventh (leading tone) eg. D - F# - A - C#
and
in the D7 (dominant 7) case, the octave of the root is "replaced" with the seventh, then lowered a half step. same as lowering a M7 chord's 7 eg. D - F# - A - C
the six chords are usually inverted root positions of other chords
for example a C6 sounds like Am but with a c root (C - E - A - C) the fifth is "replaced" with the sixth (no G)