Modal RunsA# Chord (Major)
The major triad — root, major 3rd, perfect 5th — is the most basic resolved chord in Western music. The notes of A# are A#, D, F.
It is the DNA of pop choruses, campfire songs, and the first chord almost anyone learns. Bright, stable, unambiguous.
A# voicings on guitar
Every playable, root-in-the-bass grip standard tuning offers, computed from the chord’s own formula — not a fixed shape library.
Play it right after its minor twin on the same root and listen to exactly what one semitone in the 3rd changes.
Formula and intervals
R - 3 - 5 — 3 notes.
Scales that fit A#
Every scale below contains all of this chord’s notes — safe territory to improvise in over it.
Also compatible: Major Pentatonic, Major Blues, Phrygian Dominant, Diminished (HW).