The SMART Way To Think About Chord Names and Labels [+FREE PDF] [MUSIC THEORY LESSON]

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Get the Chord Progression Codex! https://signalsmusic.studio/courses/codex FREE Printable Chord Theory Cheat Sheet: https://signalsmusic.studio/lessons/every-chord This is a lesson I WISH someone had taught me when I was younger! It's a pattern I stumbled across while writing my new book. I'm certainly not the first to realize it but I hope that this lesson will be a unique and effective way to teach the concept. I also don't know why this "works", because I don't know the history of chord names, and I question if anyone truly knows the whole story. All I know is that it works! SUSPENDED VARIATIONS: You can lower the 2nd in a suspended chord, or raise the 4th, to create chords like Gsus#4 or Gsusb2. If you really wanted to, you could also use the (b5) or (#5) symbols in conjunction with "sus" to create chords like Gsus2(#5), Gsus2(b5), or Gsus4(b5). However, sus4(#5) just creates an inverted minor triad, so it's appearance would be largely theoretical. ILLEGAL COMBINATIONS: Some symb

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