'Dissident' sounding chords

x02010 chord

x04030 chord

these are dissident the go from fat E to thin E way round

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I would say look up some Flamenco chords I´m studying in spain right now and the style Tarantas has some nice ones, you get a dark, blusie sound. Granainas are nice too. But if your intrested in really learning study how to form chords with a Bossa Nova book I´m sure you can find one for cheap on Amazon, But they often use 4 tone chords. Good luck.

Chords that sound dissonant are often chords that have two consecutive notes from the scale the chord is derived from. For example, the 9th in a 9th chord is actually a 2, but because you can't have a 2 next to a 3 in a chord, we call it a 9 instead. The same follows for 11ths and 13ths (which are 4s and 6s respectively). Also look into diminished chords-- these often have a dissonant sound because each note is 3 semitones apart, yet can bridge between scales or unusual chords beautifully.

Dissonance, in addition to the answers above, can be found in the augmented 4th/diminished 5th, also known as the tritone: The interval that divides the octave.

A list of dissonant intervals from most dissonant: 1. Minor 2nd, F# and G (xx40xx) 2. Tritone, F and B (xx34xx) 3. Major 7th, F and E (xx3x5x) 4. Major 2nd, F and G (xx30xx) 5. minor 7th, F and Eb (xx3x3x)

Notice the similarity between the minor 2nd and major 7th, and that between the major 2nd and minor 7th.

Next you could add an octave to find the b9,9,#9..., but those five are the most important. All other intervals are considered consonant.

In theory class, the first dissonant chord you learn is the dominant 7th. It's these dissonant dominant 7th chords that then resolve to tonic chords: A7 x02020 resolves to D x00232. Like V7 chords most dissonant chords need to resolve.