Borrowed chords occur when chords from the parallel major or minor key are used and substituted for the normal chords of the prevailing key....
Added tone chords are triads with an added note a second, fourth, sixth, ninth, eleventh, or thirteenth above the chord root. For example, i...
Block chords occur when all of the notes of a chord are played simultaneously in one solid “block”. The following shows examples of block ch...
A chord voicing is the vertical spacing of the notes of any given chord. For example, in a C-Major chord, the notes are C, E, and G. These n...
Slash chords are a type of chord symbol that indicate what type of chord is to be played along with what the lowest note of the chord voicin...
Major Chords A major chord is a chord containing a chord root, a note a major-third above the root, and a note a perfect-fifth above the roo...