Triads and Chords

Alrighty then this blog I will be talking about triads and Chords.

Triads are basically notes/circles on top of each other making a chord or smooth sound. Depending on what Key you are playing it’ll sound differently.

A chord is having two or more notes sounding together.

Im going to use the Key of C as an example for this.

Take a look at the picture below.

This is the Key of Major C exposed to you.

On the top of the picture is just one note/circle there but that specific note is whats called your “Root” Meaning it’s the main one.

On top of the one note/circle is the name of that Specific note. Remember in my previous blogs about the do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti-do? Well the first "do" is your “root” or what it says on the top of the picture is your Tonic. Another way of saying it is that where you started in that Key. Which in case you start at C in the Key of C Major

Now let’s look at the bottom notes/circles that are stacked up on top of each other.

Check out this picture.

These staked notes/circles are called triads.

They make a chord with the bottom note/circle as your root, the second note on top of the root is your 3^rd note, and the third note on top of the 3^rd circle is the 5^th note above.

As you can see see the first one is the root position triad which is the basic neutral chord easily because its laid out there in 1,3,5 where the root is the lowest note.

Then you got the 2^nd form of inversion called first inversion meaning the root goes up an octave and the 3^rd note goes in the bottom as the lowest note in that triad and doesn't move same as the 5^th note

Lastly the 3^rd form called second inversion meaning that again the root goes up an octave and ALSO! The 3^rd note goes up an octave also leaving the 5^th to stay where it is and becomes the lowest note in that triad.

So the root position is the neutral sound of the chords

First inversion sounds a bit higher

And Second inversion sounds the highest.