The Bizarre World of Augmented Chords
Explore the strange qualities of the augmented chord, hear where it's used in popular music, and learn how to apply it in your own compositions.
By Jake Lizzio · Signals Music Studio · 700,000+ subscribers on YouTube
Augmented chords are awkward, weird, and can seem useless. It took me a while to eventually grasp what aug chords are capable of — as well as aug7 (or +7) chords. They're certainly unique sounding, and in this lesson we cover the basics of how the triad is built and how it can be used in musical settings.
What You'll Learn
- Augmented triad basics and construction
- Swapping V for V+ in progressions
- Adding sevenths to create aug7 chords
- Voice leading with augmented chords
- Augmented chord symmetry and compositional uses
- Lydian Augmented scale
- MinMaj7 chord relationships