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  2. List of chords - Wikipedia

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    Extended chord; Jazz chord; Lead sheet; List of musical intervals; List of pitch intervals; List of musical scales and modes; List of set classes; Ninth chord; Open chord; Passing chord; Primary triad; Quartal chord; Root (chord) Seventh chord; Synthetic chord; Thirteenth chord; Tone cluster; Triad (music) Upper structure

  3. Picardy third - Wikipedia

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    For example, instead of a cadence ending on an A minor chord containing the notes A, C, and E, a Picardy third ending would consist of an A major chord containing the notes A, C ♯, and E. The minor third between the A and C of the A minor chord has become a major third in the Picardy third chord. [2]

  4. Carbonado - Wikipedia

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    Carbonado, commonly known as black diamond, is one of the toughest forms of natural diamond. It is an impure, high-density, micro-porous form of polycrystalline diamond consisting of diamond, graphite , and amorphous carbon , with minor crystalline precipitates filling pores and occasional reduced metal inclusions. [ 1 ]

  5. Three-chord song - Wikipedia

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    A common type of three-chord song is the simple twelve-bar blues used in blues and rock and roll. Typically, the three chords used are the chords on the tonic, subdominant, and dominant (scale degrees I, IV and V): in the key of C, these would be the C, F and G chords. Sometimes the V 7 chord is used instead of V, for greater tension.

  6. Triad (music) - Wikipedia

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    That is, a song or other vocal or instrumental piece can be in the key of C major or A minor, but a song or some other piece cannot be in the key of B diminished or F augmented (although songs or other pieces might include these triads within the triad progression, typically in a temporary, passing role). Three of these four kinds of triads are ...

  7. Primary triad - Wikipedia

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    In a minor key triads i and iv are minor chords, but in chord V the leading-tone is generally raised to form a major chord. [2] For example, in A minor the primary triads are Am, Dm and E. Chord v (minor) in a minor key might be expected to be a primary triad, but its use is rare in common practice harmony.

  8. Closely related key - Wikipedia

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    In the key of C major, these would be: D minor, E minor, F major, G major, A minor, and C minor. Despite being three sharps or flats away from the original key in the circle of fifths, parallel keys are also considered as closely related keys as the tonal center is the same, and this makes this key have an affinity with the original key.

  9. List of guitar tunings - Wikipedia

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    The standard tuning, without the top E string attached. Alternative variants are easy from this tuning, but because several chords inherently omit the lowest string, it may leave some chords relatively thin or incomplete with the top string missing (the D chord, for instance, must be fretted 5-4-3-2-3 to include F#, the tone a major third above D).