Piano family chords are used to classify chords based on how they function and their quality. The piano has three main chord qualities: Dominant, major, and minor. The varieties are further categorized into nine piano family chords list as enumerated below. Chord families cover all the chords that can exist in any music.
The major chord family is composed of all the primary chords that function as essential keys including its substitutes, IIImi and VImi. Key C, for instance, contains chords such as C, Emi, and Ami while the chord types include Cma7, Cma9, to Cma7.
All minor chords that work as chord II within a primary key are categorized as first minor chords. The chords include IV. For instance, key C has two chords; Dmi and F.
The first dominant chord family is made of all the primary key’s dominant and substitute chords. Key C family will thus include G7 and Bdim with chord types ranging from G7 to G13. Chord I minor and its variants chord III and VI form the second minor chord family. Key C natural minor will thus, be made of Cmi7, Ebmaj7, and Abmaj7.
The third minor chord group is composed of minor chords that work as IImi7b5 in a minor key including its other variant, IV. Key C harmonic minor contains chords such as Dmi7b5 and Fmi7.
The minor key region contains the second dominant chord family. The family also includes the dominant seventh containing a raised 11th while the third dominant chord family is composed of minor V7b9 or V7#9.
The last dominant chord family is made of the dominant seventh including all the notes whose tension has been altered notes and the flatted 13th. Any seventh dominant code containing an altered 13th note belongs to the last dominant chord.
Finally, the piano family chords list contains the diminished chord family. The family has seven diminished chords. The family has close ties to that of the third dominant family and ranks high above it structurally. The chords in this family are less prominent compared to those of G7b9 family and are always used as passing chords.