You might be surprised by some of the combinations. Here’s a handful of songs that use both the major and minor chords in their composition. Now that we’ve got the basic theory behind major and minor chords and keys, it’s important to see how they feel in real life. This is, of course, nowhere near an exhaustive list, and you should listen to different keys to make your own list.Ĭhoosing the right key, like tempo and dynamics, is vital to creating the emotion you want for a song. Bm: Solitude, melancholy, patience, calm, submission, and acceptance.B: Feelings of strength, wildness, passion, jealousy, fury, negativity, and the will to fight.Bbm: Feels like the night, darkness, blasphemy, death, and destiny.Bb: Joyful and cheerful, with feelings of love, consciousness, hope, optimism, and peace.A: Brings feelings of joy, reciprocated love, satisfaction, optimistic, trust, and spirituality.Abm: related to wailing, suffocation, lamentation, struggle, and negativity.Ab: Death, eternity, judgment, darkness.Gm: Feelings of discontent, uneasiness, failure, concern, and struggling.This evokes calm, satisfaction, tenderness, gratitude and peace. G: Happy, but with serious overtones, idyllic, and poetic.F#m: Resentment, discontentment, and lamentation, but with a touch of hope.F#: Conquest, relief, triumph, victory, and clarity.Fm: Dark and funereal, evoking feelings of the deepest depression, death, loss, and misery.Em: Restless love, grief, and mournfulness.E: Dissatisfaction and a ready-to-fight feeling – but also joy and delight.Eb: This key brings on feelings of cruelty, but also devoted love, openness, and intimacy.D#m: Deep and anxious, evoking feelings of distress, terror, darkness, and hesitation.
Brings on feelings of concerns and contemplation. Db: Depressive masked by an air of happiness.C#m: Passionate and deep, evoking sorrow, grief, despair, and self-punishment.