Keep expanding your chord vocabulary: Added Chords

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The only reason behind learning more chords or at least how to construct them, is not exhausting your brain or something, the only reason behind this it to give your songs many beautiful colors and provide you with more choices and songwriting ideas, so it's like painting, the more colors the more attraction, but be careful, as not all the colors could be put together, the same thing applies to notes, so make sure to follow the right songwriting techniques when using them!!!

The chords that we'll be learning today are called "add chords", these chords are used a lot in songs, because they provide a more colorful sound. From their name, we can see that these chords have one more note than the normal chord (major or minor).

Most people get confused of the difference between "sus" and "add" chords, so follow with me carefully. A sus chord requires the removal of the 3rd note of the chord and replace it with other note, in the case sus2, it's the 2nd note of the scale. Add chords keep the chord the same with the 1st, 3rd, the 5th and adds an additional note to it, in the case of add2, it's the 2nd note or interval of the scale.

Csus2: 1st, 2nd, 5th ===> C - D - G
Cadd2: 1st, 2nd, major 3rd, 5th ===> C - D - E - G.

While you can add more notes to your triad, the most common add chords are the ones with one added note.