As we already know (if you have read our article on scales) C major uses all of the white notes that we see on our keyboard. We can extract the notes that we require to create our triad based on C ...

As the name suggests, a triad is a chord which is made up of three notes. Knowing which three notes to employ is not a rocket science, but it does require a very small degree of musical knowledge, ...

All the chords built on other notes in the scale of C are minor, except chord VII ... For example, G7 is made by taking the major triad of G (G - B - D) and adding an F (G - B - D - F).