Arpeggio quality

maj

The major triad is the most stable sound in Western music: a root, a major third and a perfect fifth stacked into one bright, unambiguous chord. Everything else in this dictionary is measured against it — the third supplies the major colour, the fifth anchors it, and the root makes it land. Because it contains no seventh, it works over almost any style, from folk strumming to jazz comping, and it is the shape most other qualities grow from. Arpeggiated, it teaches your fingers the three points of the chord before extensions blur the picture. Listen for the moment the third meets the root: that wide, open interval is what major means.