Major/Minor Chords II: The Minor Half of the Picture

The short answer: every major chord has a minor twin one small change away — drop the 3rd note by a half step and the chord flips from bright to dark. Gitori's Major/Minor Chords II course focuses on the minor equivalents of the white-key chords from Major/Minor Chords I.

One dropped note, opposite mood

Major and minor triads share two of their three notes — only the middle note (the 3rd) differs, and by just a half step. That's the entire distance between "happy" and "sad" in triad-land (Major third vs minor third explains why such a small interval carries so much emotional weight). Because the shapes are this closely related, the fastest way to learn minor triads isn't from scratch — it's as an edit to major shapes you already know.

What the course covers

The minor equivalents of the white-key triads — Cm, Dm, Em (already minor in course I, revisited from the "dropped 3rd" angle), and their major-key siblings — built by explicitly narrating the edit each time: which note moves, and by how much. Inversions are drilled the same way as course I, so a minor triad in any position is as familiar as its major counterpart.

Before you start

Major/Minor Chords I is the direct predecessor — this course only makes sense as a comparison against shapes you should already have under your hands.