Frequently seen but often misunderstood, this essential music theory learning tool can help you come up with creative gold ...

Some dated back to college. Pretty preppy, those cords. I think I even once had a pair of tan corduroy shorts I wore with tights, but I could be mistaken. We're talking last century here.

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The reasons that the progression of I, IV, V is so pleasing to the human ear is that those chords are built upon the three most consonant intervals with the tonic: Well, if you look back at the circle ...

So, looking at the circle we can see (at the top) that the relative minor to C major is A minor. A C major triad chord (i.e. three notes at once) is formed by playing C (the root), E (the major third) ...