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Cm
Beginner

Minor

Formula1-♭3-5
CGEb

How to build it

  1. Take a major chord
  2. Lower the middle note by one semitone

Just lower one black key in the middle. What a difference! Now it sounds sad or melancholic. Pure magic!

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