Minor chords are considered to be the dark counterparts to the bright-sounding major chords. Minor chords can be used to give listeners a feeling of sadness, disturbance, or darkness. These feelings are especially pronounced when the minor triad and minor 6th chords are sounded. These feelings are accentuated even more, when a minor chord is the goal chord that sounds at the end of a progression. The minor 7th, a four note chord, contains a three note minor triad two of whose pitches overlap a major triad that is also part of the minor 7th. Because of the major triad that sounds within the minor 7th chord, it feels less dark than the minor triad sounding by itself.
	Minor triad (mi)
	Minor 7th (mi7)
	Minor 6th (mi6)
	mi7(b5)