![]() ![]() We’ll see you tomorrow with another short little video like this. If you’re not already signed up for these series of video lessons, come on over to and sign up for those. Okay, that’s it for today, a little lesson on augmented triads. In other words, if you’re going from C up to F, you might use that chord. These are often used as traditional, I mean, as transitional chords. For example, you’d have C augmented, C 7th augmented. Of course, you can have a lot more complex. There’s 12 Major chords, 12 minor chords, 12 diminished chords, and now 12 augmented chords, and that brings a total of 48, doesn’t it? 48 basic triads. If I raise the 5th, that’s B Flat augmented. There’s the B Major chord, and that would be a B Major triad, 3-note chord. The symbol for a double-sharp is like a fat X, a fat X. You just raise it a half-step but can you call it G. How do you sharp a sharp? Well, that’s right. There’s the B Major triad, B, D Sharp and F Sharp. To make it augmented, you raise the 5th to a D Natural. G Flat Major which is all black as you can see, three black keys. A Flat Major, A Flat augmented, exactly the same principle. E Flat Major, E Flat augmented, same principle. There’s the D Flat Major triad, so to make that augmented, I just change the A Flat into A Natural, so that’s D Flat augment. There’s an A Major triad and if I raise the 5th there, I can’t call that F, I’ve got to call it E Sharp. How would I make it augmented? There’s no black key to the right of D, so I have to play that white key, but I can’t call it C but I have to call it B Sharp because I’m sharping or raising the 5th degree of the scale. There’s G Major, where’s G augmented? That’s right. Here’s F Major, so how would I make it augmented? That’s right, just raise the 5th a half-step. We’re going to lengthen it, in other words, so instead of root, 3rd and 5th, we’re going to raise the 5th a half-step. Augmented means to widen, of course, to augment, to add to, and so we’re going to take a Major triad, triad meaning a 3-note chord and we’re going to augment it. This is Duane, and today we’re going to take a look at augmented triads. Augmented Triads – The Pepper Of A Musical Meal! Good morning. ![]()
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