[PLAYING CHORD PROGRESSION]

So I just played a little progression for you that included triads.

Triads-- that is the first chord we're going to talk about in this course.
What is a triad?
Of course, triad, you think of the word "three."
And if you look at the screen there, there is the major scale with a triad.
[PLAYING MAJOR TRIAD]
Three notes-- a triad consists of the 1, the 3,
and the 5, the root, which is the same thing
as the 1, the third, and the fifth.
This is what we call a major triad.
[PLAYING MAJOR TRIAD]
And this major triad is built upon C-- major third
up from C, then a minor third up from E, which is the G, 1, 3, 5,
C major triad, your first chord.
C major triad in the key of C is the I chord.
It's built upon the first degree, the I chord.
[PLAYING MAJOR ARPEGGIO]
Now if we built another triad-- let's say we built it on F, 1, 3,
5 in the key of F, F, A, C. This is an F major triad.
[PLAYING AND SINGING MAJOR ARPEGGIO]
(SINGING) Do, mi, sol, F, A, C. That would be the IV chord in the key of C.
We're in the key of C.
[PLAYING MAJOR SCALE]
1, 2, 3, 4-- that's the IV chord, which is F, F major triad.
[PLAYING MAJOR ARPEGGIO]
So we have the I triad, C major triad, the IV major triad,
which is F major triad.
And let's do another one on the key of G. So we have G, up a major third,
then up a minor third.
[PLAYING MAJOR TRIAD]
G major triad-- 1, 3, 5 based upon G. He's your
1, 3, 5, G, B, D, G major triad.
[PLAYING MAJOR TRIAD]
So we talked about the major triad.
And we based that major triad on three different notes--
[PLAYING MAJOR TRIADS]
C, F, and G, otherwise known as the I chord, the IV chord, and the V chord,
C, F, and G. The major triad-- 1, 3, and 5.
So next I'd like to talk about the minor triad.
We know the major triad has a 1, 3, and a 5 in it.
Now, the only difference between a major triad and a minor triad is one note.
It's the third.
The third of the scale is E. This is a C triad.
The third is E. To make it minor, you just take it down a half step to an E
flat.
So now you have a 1, a flat 3, and a 5-- C minor triad.
[PLAYING MINOR TRIAD]
Hear the difference between minor?
Now this is major.
[PLAYING MAJOR TRIAD]
Minor.
[PLAYING MINOR TRIAD]
Major.
[PLAYING PROGRESSION]
Minor-- major.
Now, if we're going to take that and go to F, play F major triad,
to make it minor, we just take that third, that middle note there,
and go down a half step.
Now we have an F minor triad.
[PLAYING PROGRESSION]
C minor, F minor, C minor, F minor.
C major, F major, C major, F major.
The minor triad-- 1, flat 3, 5, 1, flat 3, 5, the minor triad.
OK, now we have the minor triad and the major triad.
What I'd like you to do is I'd like you to sing each pitch of the triad.
We'll start with the major triad.
[PLAYING MAJOR TRIAD]
(SINGING) Do, mi, sol-- sing that with me.
Do, mi, sol-- that's a major triad, la, la, la.
Now to do a minor triad, we're just simply taking that third
and taking it down a half step.
So you have (SINGING) la, la, la.
Say la with me this time on a minor triad.
La, la, la.
[PLAYING MINOR TRIAD]
If you use solfege it would be (SINGING) do, ma, sol.
[PLAYING MINOR TRIAD]
Sing that, do, ma, sol-- (SINGING) do, ma, sol.
So we have major-- (SINGING) do, mi, sol, la, la, la, minor, do,
ma, sol, la, la, la.
That's the difference between the two.
[PLAYING MAJOR TRIAD]
Kind of a bright sound.
[PLAYING MINOR TRIAD]
Kind of a darker sound-- major triad, minor triad.
So now I'm going to play a major triad or a minor triad,
and you tell me which one it is, major or minor.
[PLAYING TRIAD]
Here it is again.
[PLAYING TRIAD]
Here's another one.
[PLAYING TRIAD]
Major or minor?

[PLAYING TRIAD]
Major or minor?
Here's another one.
[PLAYING TRIAD]
Major or minor?
[PLAYING TRIAD]
Here's a fourth one.
[PLAYING TRIAD]

And here's the last one.

[PLAYING TRIAD]

Major and minor triads-- major triad, 1, 3, 5, minor triad, 1, flat 3, 5.

Major--
[PLAYING MAJOR TRIAD]
Minor--
[PLAYING MINOR TRIAD]