Augment
Your Presence
With Augmented Triads
Are
you feeling like you need a pick-me-up? Feeling down in the dumps
with the thought that there’s just no more mystery to life?
Where has the wonderment gone, you ask? Well, hello augmented chords!
Augmented
triads are often heard in the harmonic vocabulary of impressionist
composers and sci-fi film composers. I can’t tell you how
many outer space themed movies use this chord to create a sense
of mystery and wonderment.
These
triads are constructed on the third degree of a harmonic minor scale,
using the third, fifth and raised seventh notes of the scale. However,
you do not have to be in a minor key in order to incorporate these
awe-inspiring chords. Simply raising the top note of a root position
major triad by a semitone can form them.
Here
are notated augmented triads that are formed from three minor scales.
Each chord shows the key signature of the minor scale that it originates
from, along with suggested piano fingerings.

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