Music Theory For Dummies by Michael Pilhofer

Author:Michael Pilhofer
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2011-09-27T16:00:00+00:00

Figure 10-1: Two stacks of thirds, one on the lines and the other in the spaces.

With chords based on intervals of a third, all the notes are either going to be line notes or space notes, resting one on top of another like the examples in Figure 10-1.

Creating Triads with Three Pitches

Triads, which consist of any three pitches from the same scale, are the most common type of chord used in music. Here are the different types of triads you’ll likely work with:

Major

Minor

Augmented

Diminished

In the following sections, we provide information on these triads, but first we introduce what triads are and what they’re made of.

Roots, thirds, and fifths

The term triad refers to chords that contain three different pitches and are built of thirds. The bottom note of a triad is called the root; many beginning music students are taught to think of a triad as being a tree, with the root of a triad being its, well, root. Chords carry the letter name of the root note, as in the root of a C chord, shown in Figure 10-2.

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