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What Makes a Chord Minor or Major? The difference between a major and minor chord comes down to one, simple change: the 3rd in a scale. A major chord contains the 1st, 3rd, and 5th notes of the major scale. A minor chord contains the 1st, flattened (lowered) 3rd, and 5th notes of the major scale that it’s named for.
Today, I demonstrate every natural major and minor chord on the guitar. These are the basic building blocks of so many songs, with no sharps or flats involved! Perfect for beginners and...
Major chords, together with the minor chords, are normally the first chords to learn on the guitar. These are fundamental and most other chords are extended or altered versions of major and minor chords. Besides the basic major chords there are other categories that also use major in the name.
This lesson provides print-friendly (PDF) versions of the beginner guitar chord charts found in the chord basics series. Every beginner guitarist should know the chords on this page. They're easy to finger, provide vibrant open voicings and you'll use them throughout your entire guitar playing life. Many epic songs have been written exclusively ...
All guitar chords chart with major, minor, dominant seventh & minor seventh chords in every key & many other types of chord. Play any song on your guitar.
The Major chord contains the 1st (root), 3rd and 5th of the Major scale). It is the most common and most important chord in all of music. By using inversions, we can play three different voicings of the Major chord: root position (1, 3, 5), 1st inversion (3, 5, 1) and 2nd inversion (5, 1, 3).
Major Scale Chords Formula. After going through the exercise above of building triads from the G major scale, you end up with a pattern of major and minor chords that holds true for all major scales. The major scale chord qualities are summarized in the table below.
