The Importance of Ear Training

Dean Obeidallah: If you hear a chord, can you tell if it's a major or minor chord? "You've been in rock and roll your entire fucking life. And you have no idea what a major chord or minor chords are," he says. A triad is one, three, and five of the scale; an E-F triplet is three notes that happen in the space of two notes. The Ramones didn't have a minor chord on their first album, but I also heard that Ian Stewart, the piano player for the Rolling Stones, never played minor chords because he didn't like them.