Majorly Cool Triads

Overview

Link to Experience: https://play.phenomena.app/player/Wy5X88Af6ibFXh9o3AE0

Topics: music theory, chords, major triads

Grades: any

Duration to complete: 5-10 minutes

Learning outcome: Students will understand the intervals that make up major triads, such that they can build their own chords when presented with only a root note.

In the Classroom

Pre-Experience (Things to Look Out For):

• Have you heard of a chord, or a triad? What do those words mean?

• How about major, what do you think a major triad is?

• Why are chords useful? What role do they play in music?

Post-Experience (Things to Think About):

• What note intervals always make up a major triad?

• How many distinct major triads are there?

• How might other types of chords be built?

• What do you anticipate being different for other chord types? What could be the same?