There are a couple of very useful relatives to our humble major and minor triads, and what’s more, they each evoke a different emotional response. We’re going to concentrate on the augmented ...

Take a normal major or minor triad - it doesn't matter which - and move its third up to play a perfect fourth, and you have a suspended 4 chord, or sus4 (root-5-7). Because it lacks a third, the ...

1. Smoother sequences with inverted chords (Image credit: Future) A normal C major chord is C-E-G, but you can easily change it to E-G-C, called the 'first inversion', or G-C-E, the 'second inversion' ...