Chords

Question 1

How do you form a Major 7 chord?

Answer 1

Root
Major 3rd
Perfect 5th
Major 7th

Question 2

How do you form a dominant 7 chord?

Answer 2

Root
Major 3rd
Perfect 5th
Minor 7th

Question 3

How do you form a minor 7th chord?

Answer 3

Root
Minor 3rd
Perfect 5th
Minor 7th

Question 4

How do you form a sus4 chord?

Answer 4

Root
Perfect 4th
Perfect 5th

Question 5

How do you form a half-diminished 7th chord?

Answer 5

Root
Minor 3rd
Diminished 5th
Minor 7th

Question 6

How do you form a diminished chord?

Answer 6

Root
Minor 3rd
Diminished 5th
Diminished 7th (bb7)

Question 7

How do you form an augmented 7th chord?

Answer 7

Root
Major 3rd
Augmented 5th
Minor 7th

Question 8

How do you form a sus2 chord?

Answer 8

Root
Major 2nd
Perfect 5th

Question 9

What’re the chords of the major scale?

Answer 9

Major 7
Minor 7
Minor 7
Major 7
Dominant 7
Minor 7
Half-diminished 7 (minor 7b5)

Question 10

What is an inversion?

Answer 10

A chord with a chord tone that is not the root in the base

Question 11

What’s a split bar harmony?

Answer 11

Two chords per bar

Question 12

What does UST stand for?

Answer 12

Upper Structure Triad

Question 13

What’s UST?

Answer 13

The triad formed in the upper three notes of a chord. (Eg C major chord has an E minor UST)

Question 14

What’s secondary dominance?

Answer 14

Making a non-dominant chord dominant

Question 15

What’s the purpose of secondary dominance?

Answer 15

For modulation

Question 16

Give a commonly used chord movement in pop music

Answer 16

I major
III 7
vi minor

Question 17

What’s the tonic family?

Answer 17

I-III-vi

Question 18

What’s the sub-dominant family?

Answer 18

ii-IV

Question 19

What’s the dominant family?

Answer 19

V-vi