Why are Minor Chords Perceived as “Sad”? Part 1 article by Kurt Ellenberger, published on July 8, 2025 at All About Jazz.

MELODIC MUSE by Andy Timmons THE BENDS, PART 4 String bending offers us guitarists a highly effective way to evoke a wide ...

Turbo-boost your pentatonic lead playing by learning from Nuno Bettencourt, Joe Bonamassa, Jimmy Page and more ...

Once we get into minor chords (with a b3) and 5 chords – often called powerchords and which don’t have a 3rd at all – it’s ...

One way to achieve this is by using what are known as borrowed chords.. Borrowed chords are usually taken - or, yes, ‘borrowed’ - from the key parallel to the one you’re working in. Parallel keys ...

Like the major chords, minor chords are used throughout every style of music. They’re also some of the easiest shapes to play. The chances are you learned a few minor chords in your first lessons. And ...

For example: If you’re playing in the key of F and move to an A minor chord from an F major, popular songs are 67 percent likely to follow it up with a D minor chord.

What might make D minor so glum is that the chord’s tonic, or its tonal center, is the downbeat D minor itself.Minor chords in general are so poignant that they’ve been central in studies on ...

Consider two chords, C-major and C-minor: C-Major and C-minor chords differ by only one-half note – E and E-flat. A small difference with a big impact. The difference in sound is due to the interval ...

Any additional chords must by default be minor or diminished. How Is I-IV-V Used? Typically, as above, to create chord progressions that are the ultimate in major chord progressions within a key.