A Chord is two or more notes played simultaneously. There are many types of chords in music such as triads (major, minor, diminished, augmented and some suspended chords), add chords, sixth chords, suspended sixth chords, seventh chords, suspended seventh chords, ninth chords, eleventh chords, thirteenth chords and altered chords.

In this book, you will learn about the notes of the following chords, and also, how you can construct these chords using intervals-

4 types of triads

3 types of suspended chords

2 types of add chords (each of these add chords further has 4 subtypes)

6 types of sixth chords

3 types of suspended sixth chords

6 types of seventh chords

2 types of suspended seventh chords (each of these suspended seventh chords further has 3 subtypes)

6 types of ninth chords

6 types of eleventh chords

5 types of thirteenth chords

4 types of altered chords (altered seventh chords, altered ninth chords, altered eleventh chords and altered thirteenth chords). Each of these 4 types of altered chords also has subtypes-

★ 6 types of altered seventh chords

× Altered major seventh chords (it further has 2 subtypes)

× Altered minor seventh chords (it further has 2 subtypes)

× Altered dominant seventh chords (it further has 2 subtypes)

× Altered diminished seventh chords (it has only one subtype)

× Altered minor major seventh chords (it further has 2 subtypes)

× Altered diminished major seventh chords (it has only one subtype)

★ 6 types of altered ninth chords

× Altered major ninth chords (it further has 8 subtypes)

× Altered minor ninth chords (it further has 5 subtypes)

× Altered dominant ninth chords (it further has 8 subtypes)

× Altered diminished ninth chords (it further has 3 subtypes)

× Altered minor major ninth chords (it further has 5 subtypes)

× Altered diminished major ninth chords (it further has 3 subtypes)

★ 6 types of altered eleventh chords

× Altered major eleventh chords (it further has 11 subtypes)

× Altered minor eleventh chords (it further has 7 subtypes)

× Altered dominant eleventh chords (it further has 11 subtypes)

× Altered diminished eleventh chords (it further has 3 subtypes)

× Altered minor major eleventh chords (it further has 5 subtypes)

× Altered diminished major eleventh chords (it further has 3 subtypes)

★ 5 types of altered thirteenth chords

× Altered major thirteenth chords (it further has 11 subtypes)

× Altered minor thirteenth chords (it further has 6 subtypes)

× Altered dominant thirteenth chords (it further has 13 subtypes)

× Altered minor major thirteenth chords (it further has 5 subtypes)

× Altered diminished major thirteenth chords (it further has 3 subtypes)

In total, you will learn about the notes of 173 types of chords.