How chords work

Three chords carry most tunes

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    Three chords carry most tunes

    Build a triad on the first, fourth and fifth notes of a scale and you have the three chords an enormous amount of music is made from. In C that is C, F and G. Folk songs, hymns, a great deal of pop: those three, in some order.

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