We can call them triads and we'll be talking about what that is before-- so that's one reason: major versus minor.

我们可以统称为三和弦,我们一会儿会说到,好的,这是一个答案,大和弦和小和弦

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Remember the other people, the octaves had been enunciated, the triads had been enunciated.

记住其他人，八度音也曾发明过，三元组也被发现过。

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Last time we worked through this idea of the scale and how you can build triads on each of the members of the scale.

上节课我们已经讨论过音阶中的这个概念,以及你们怎样才能在音阶的各个音上组建起三和弦。

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They tend to be just triads whereas in classical music we can have a triad but we can also add a seventh note with one,three,five,seven,nine,eleven, that kind of thing.

流行乐一般只用三和弦，但是古典乐可以用三和弦,也可以在上面加上七音，一，三，五，七，九，十一，诸如此类的。

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And he did it for other triads.

他这样做还为了其他的三元组。

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So we can build triads on each of the members of the scale, and we said that some of these chords tend to be used a lot more than others, that the tonic is very important, the dominant is important, the sub-dominant right next to and below the dominant is important, and we're going to be talking about the VI chord today.

那么我们能够在音阶的各个音上建立三和弦，而且我们说过有些和弦将会比其它的运用更为普遍，基音，I和弦，属音，V和弦，都很重要，紧靠属音的下属音也很重要，我们今天就要讲讲VI和弦。

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