John Carlos Baez on Nostr: An 'augmented triad' is a kind of chord with 3 notes. If you draw the 12 notes on the ...
An 'augmented triad' is a kind of chord with 3 notes. If you draw the 12 notes on the piano as equally spaced dots on a circle, an augmented triad is simply any chord that forms an equilateral triangle!
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