The ‘happiest’ sounding of the modes, the Ionian is identical to the major scale, so it’s highly likely you’re already playing it on guitar ... major and minor triads (three-note diatonic ...

As we already know (if you have read our article on scales) C major uses all of the white notes that we see on our keyboard. We can extract the notes that we require to create our triad based on C ...

An added 6th is a major triad with the addition of a 6th note above the root. In this example you will hear both the notes of the chord and the chord played separately. You can follow along with ...

The dominant seventh of a V chord can be shown by the symbol V7. For example, G7 is made by taking the major triad of G (G - B - D) and adding an F (G - B - D - F). A cadence is formed by two ...