Now as you know, we've got major triads.
They sound, usually sound bright.
And we've got minor triads, more darker sounding.
And diminished triads, well, they usually sound tense.
And what we just met there,
that was an augmented triad with two major thirds in it.
We'll talk about that in just a second.
It sounds very strange in a way, very bracing.
I would sub, say that it contains a certain shock almost,
a certain [FOREIGN] as the French would say.
So let me play these for you on the keyboard, and as you can see on the screen
up there Mm means that you get your big major third first and
then up above that comes the minor third, big, little.
And then with the minor triad you get the little third first and
the big one up on top.
And in the diminished you get two minor thirds, and
with the augmented triad you get two major thirds.
So here's the major triad, of course.
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Play it again.
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Here's the minor triad.
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Here's the diminished triad.
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And the augmented triad.
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Okay, one more time in succession.
Major.
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Again.
Major, minor, diminished, augmented.
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Well, let's have a little quiz.
Let's have a little quiz.
I'll play four triads for you in a row, and you identify what they are.
Here we go.
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