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

However, the harmonic minor is better for playing over a perfect cadence, where chord V7 resolves to a minor chord, as with E7-Am.

Preamble Since writing my article on Music and Evolution, I have received many emails asking the same question: "How does harmony and the movement of chords function in conjunction with the harmonic ...

The solution was to raise the seventh note to give the harmonic minor - the notes in G harmonic minor are G, A, B b , C, D, Eb, F#. The V-I is now D-Gm or D7-Gm, (making the V chord a seventh chord, ...

Artificial harmonics are usually associated with single notes, but can also be applied to your chord playing. To create the artificial harmonic we touch the string 12 frets higher than the fretted ...

Harmonic minor keys are used when writing chords. There is another version of the minor key known as the melodic minor. This is used when writing a melody. Each key signature has two possible keys ...

Hit songs rely on increasing “harmonic surprise” to hook listeners, study finds Childish Gambino's "This Is America" ranked highest in challenging musical expectations.

The following examples and study piece show how the harmonic minor scale can be employed over a bluesy Am-E7 -Am progression. The study piece itself features an additional Bm7b5 chord for some ...

Revise notation, the way of writing down music, with rhythm and metre, sharps and flats, key signatures, major and minor keys, articulation and dynamics.