The characteristics of these minor scales mean that triads based on these degrees of the scale make different kinds of chords. These chromatic alterations have been the basis of a whole range of ...

Steely Dan were musical innovators, which is reflected in their music, but also in the fact that they made up their very own chord.

So let’s begin by discussing major and minor chords, or triads ... It’s so named because it’s the 7th from a major scale, and not the more usual flattened variety, associated with the ...