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Three notes, infinite drama — every chord you've ever hummed hides one inside.
means A group of three closely connected people or things, especially three notes stacked up to form the basic building block of harmony.
from From Greek 'trias' (a group of three), built from 'treis' (three) — the same root behind 'trinity' and 'triangle'. It passed through Latin 'trias/triad-' into English in the 1500s, first used for any threesome of things, before music theory claimed it in the 1600s–1700s for a chord made of a root, third, and fifth stacked together.
- root structure
- stack two thirds, get one triad
- four flavors
- major, minor, diminished, augmented, that's it
- other meaning
- also Chinese organized crime syndicates
- inversions
- same notes, different bass, different mood