Major Triad Sharp 5 Chord

🎵 Also known as an Augmented Triad (root, 3, #5), it sounds bright, unstable, and expansive. Creates a feeling of upward movement or suspension. Use it often as a passing chord, particularly between a tonic and subdominant, or for dramatic effects and creating a feeling of yearning or surrealism.

Also abbreviated as: aug++5^#5

With all 3 notes and C as bass, it is also: Ab+/CAbaug/CC+CaugE+/CEaug/CG#+/CG#aug/C

Contains intervals: 1P3M5A

Popular songs which use this chord type: Oh! Darling (The Beatles), Blue Moon