This doesn’t make any sense to me, these are just sounds, they don’t sound neither happy nor sad to me (when I try playing them on piano). But I’m new to music so I don’t know… Is there an explanation that actually makes sense?
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The difference between a minor and major chord is that the minor chord is a semitone lower than a major chord. Our ears are expecting the higher major third, but instead we get a note slightly lower. We associate notes lower than expected a being “sad” (think about speech patterns, if we are saying something sad we lower our voice while if we are excited we raise it) so we associate the minor chord as being sad.
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