Here’s how it works. Once you know how to construct major and minor scales on the piano, you can take the notes within them and start stacking them up together to play chords. While it’s possible to ...

But when you play a set of diatonic chords like this, built using notes that all belong to a major scale, why do some of them end up being minor chords instead of major? A major scale is major due to ...

Then, while they were sleeping, they were played a repeated piano chord, which they had been taught to associate with positive experiences. The chord was C69 – C major, with a major sixth (the note ‘A ...