Triads: Four Types

Learn about triads: four types: explore modal harmony and its colors

🎵 Stage Brief #23

Planing moves the same chord shape up or down in parallel motion.

🎯 Your mission

Two notes together — does it feel calm or tense?

⚡ The twist

Major sounds bright. Minor sounds soft. Both are beautiful.

What you'll learn

Planing moves the same chord shape up or down in parallel motion. Debussy used planing for impressionistic color.

Remember

🎧 Listen

Listen for this

🎧 Pick out the lowest note. That's the bass — the foundation.

🌟 Artist spotlight

🌟 Bach wrote so many harmonies he basically invented the rules everyone still uses.

🤯 Mind = blown

🤯 Some cultures use scales with 22 notes — way more than the 7 you know.

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What does 'dissonant' mean in music?

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What is harmony?

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What is a chord progression?

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✨ More to explore

🌍 Where you hear this: The reason songs make you feel things is harmony doing its quiet job underneath.

🏆 Try this week: Listen to any song. Try to hear the bass line.

👨‍👩‍👧 At dinner: “Play one song together. Talk about what feeling it gave you and why.”

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