Augmented Chords – Adding Spice To a Song Sprinkle Some Pepper On Your Musical Meal Through The Use of Augmented Chords Augmented chords are to a piece of music like pepper is to a meal; you would never sit down … Continue reading →
Major & Minor Intervals & The Chords They Form Hi, this is Duane and no matter what kind of music you play, you play both balanced and unbalanced chords – Major & Minor Intervals & The Chords They Form. I’d … Continue reading →
Learning Augmented Chords On The Piano Is Easy Good morning, this is Duane. Today, I’d like to take a look at augmented chords. We’ve been looking at the chord formation, such as major chords and minor chords. The next in … Continue reading →
Piano Chords: Using Major, Minor, Diminished & Augmented Chords To Improvise Here is a transcript of the video if you want to follow along: Good morning. This is Duane and today I would like to talk about getting started improvising … Continue reading →
Knowing piano chords can be the difference between playing the piano just by reading the notes in a piece of sheet music and being able to improvise your own arrangements of most any song. The mistake most people make is … Continue reading →
Once in a while it’s good to take a little review of the basics, so we’re going to take a quick look at augmented triads and see how they are formed and how logical they are. Augmented triads (3-note chords) … Continue reading →
Once you know all the major chords, it’s easy to form diminished and augmented chords by just changing one or two notes.
Continue reading →Piano chords come in all flavors — major, minor, diminished, augmented, and many kinds of extended chords
Continue reading →Augmented triads (3 note chords) are formed by raising the 5th of a major chord 1/2 step.
Continue reading →Augmented chords are to a piece of music like pepper is to a meal; you would never sit down to a meal of pepper alone, but you might sprinkle a little on your food to liven up the taste a bit.
Augmented triads (triads are 3-note chords) are one of the 4 basic chord types, yet they are used very little compared to major and minor chords.
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