Fear of a black key?… Don't be afraid. Adding flats and sharps to your music will give it a new lease of life.

Try moving your triad up the scale as a block chord, just using the white notes of C major. Be sure to maintain the full triad shape. You’ll hear the associated chords of F major, G major and A minor.

The theory behind this principle is pretty easy; let's start with a triad of C major, which will contain the notes C, E and G ...

And the 12 notes of the chromatic scale can all be used as a starting point from which to build a key through this ‘tonic’ and ‘tonic triad’ relationship we see in tonal music. From these 12 notes can ...

Hitting the right notes to play music by ear. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 11, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2025 / 05 / 250527124849.htm. University of Waterloo.

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We can extract the notes that we require to create our triad based on C major, beginning with the note which we call the 'root'. This is the first note of our scale, the note C.