Harmonic minor keys are used when writing chords. There is another version of the minor key known as the melodic minor. This is used when writing a melody. Each key signature has two possible keys.

Though not as commonplace as its major counterpart, G minor tuning is used in many songs including John Renbourn’s The Mist ...

All the chords built on other notes in the scale of C are minor, except chord VII - the notes B – D – F, which is diminished. When a seventh is added to a chord this is known as a seventh chord.

If you look at a music or piano keyboard ... As you may know, major chords sound bright and happy, where as minor chords sound more melancholic or sad. Locate the 3rd of our C major triad ...