Chords

Question 1

What is a chord made up of degrees 1, 3 and 5 called?

Answer 1

Triad

Question 2

What intervals are required to make a major chord?

Answer 2

Major 3rd between bottom and middle note
Minor 3rd between middle and top note

Question 3

What intervals are required to make a minor chord?

Answer 3

Minor 3rd between bottom and middle note
Major 3rd between middle and top note

Question 4

What intervals are required to make a diminished chord?

Answer 4

Minor 3rd between all notes

Question 5

What intervals are required to make an augmented chord?

Answer 5

Major 3rd between all notes

Question 6

What position is a C major chord with C in the bass? Root, 1st, 2nd or 3rd inversion?

Answer 6

Root

Question 7

What position is a C major chord with E in the bass? Root, 1st, 2nd or 3rd inversion?

Answer 7

1st inversion

Question 8

What position is a C major chord with G in the bass? Root, 1st, 2nd or 3rd inversion?

Answer 8

2nd

Question 9

What note is in the bass if the chord is a 3rd inversion chord?

Answer 9

The flattened 7th

Question 10

In a dominant 7th chord, starting on a C, what are the 4 notes needed?

Answer 10

C, E, G and Bb

Question 11

What are the notes in a C7 chord?

Answer 11

C, E, G and Bb

Question 12

What are the notes in a C major 7 chord?

Answer 12

C, E, G and B

Question 13

What are the notes in a C9 chord?

Answer 13

C, E, G, Bb and D

Question 14

What is the highest extended chord you can go to?

Answer 14

A 13th (if you write a note 15 notes above the root, you’ll start back at the beginning of the chord again)

Question 15

How is an added chord different form an extended chord?

Answer 15

You can choose which notes to add to an added chord whereas an extended chord is built on multiple stacked 3rds

Question 16

How do you create a Neapolitan chord?

Answer 16

Take the 2nd degree of the scale - move that note down a semitone - create a major triad built on that note - put it in first inversion

Question 17

What primary chord can a Neapolitan chord most easily replace?

Answer 17

Chord IV - same bass note

Question 18

How do you make an Italian augmented 6th chord?

Answer 18

Take chord IV of a major key
Put it in 1st inversion
Lower the bottom note by a semitone
Raise the top note by a semitone

Question 19

What note do you add to an Italian augmented 6th chord to make it a French augmented 6th chord?

Answer 19

A tone above the bottom note

Question 20

What note do you add to an Italian augmented 6th chord to make it a German augmented 6th chord?

Answer 20

A minor 3rd above the bottom note

Question 21

What other chord does a German augmented 6th chord sound like?

Answer 21

A dominant 7th

Question 22

“A leading note of a scale must always” what? “Rise” or “fall”?

Answer 22

Rise

Question 23

“A flattened 7th of a chord must always” what? “Rise” or “fall”?

Answer 23

Fall

Question 24

What chord would follow a G7 chord?

Answer 24

C

Question 25

What 3 notes make a Csus4 chord?

Answer 25

C, F and G

Question 26

In a major scale, which chords are major?

Answer 26

I, IV and V

Question 27

In a major scale, which chords are minor?

Answer 27

ii, iii and vi

Question 28

In a major scale, what type of chord is chord vii?

Answer 28

Diminished

Question 29

What type of chord is made up of the notes C and F#?

Answer 29

Augmented 4th Tritone Not a diminished 5th

Question 30

In the key of C major, what chord would you assume if you only had B and D?

Answer 30

G major 1st inversion

Question 31

What chords make a perfect cadence?

Answer 31

V-I

Question 32

What chords make an imperfect cadence?

Answer 32

Anything to V

Question 33

What chords make a plagal cadence?

Answer 33

IV-I

Question 34

What chords make an interrupted cadence?

Answer 34

V-vi

Question 35

In a minor key, an interrupted cadence finishes on what type of chord; major or minor?

Answer 35

Major

Question 36

In a major key, an interrupted cadence finishes on what type of chord; major or minor?

Answer 36

Minor

Question 37

What degree of the scale is the relative minor of a major scale?

Answer 37

6

Question 38

What notes make up a C11 chord?

Answer 38

C, E, G, Bb, D and F

Question 39

What chords are primary chords?

Answer 39

I, IV and V

Question 40

What type of chord helps to create a smooth modulation from one key to another?

Answer 40

A pivot chord

Question 41

What is a pivot chord?

Answer 41

A chord that belongs to two keys and can be used to help modulate from one of those keys to the other

Question 42

What 2 chords are needed to make a tonicisation?

Answer 42

V and I

Question 43

What cadence is made from chords V-vi?

Answer 43

Interrupted

Question 44

What cadence is most likely to be heard at the end of a piece of music?

Answer 44

Perfect