Altered chords piano

1. What are altered chords piano?
2. What are altered chords?
3. How do you use altered chords?
4. What is a G7alt chord?

What are altered chords piano?

Altered chords are a special category of chords that - as the name implies - alter other chords. There are, for example, altered dominant seventh chords with a flattened or a sharp fifth: 7-5 and 7+5.

What are altered chords?

An altered chord is a chord in which one or more notes from the diatonic scale is replaced with a neighboring pitch from the chromatic scale. ... For example, altered notes may be used as leading tones to emphasize their diatonic neighbors.

How do you use altered chords?

Altered chords are best used to either pull progressions momentarily out of a strong sense of key, or to provide interesting colour to an otherwise mundane progression. Here's an example of an altered chord that achieves the first circumstance: pulling the progression away from a key.

What is a G7alt chord?

Typically, a dominant seventh chord is considered altered if either or both the 5th or 9th are chromatically raised or lowered. (“G7alt” might mean a G7 with both an altered 5th and 9th, but is vague in that it doesn't specify how the 5th and 9th are chromatically altered.)