Altered Chord

In music, an altered chord, an example of alteration, is a chord with one or more diatonic notes replaced by, or altered to, a neighboring pitch in the chromatic scale. For example the following progression uses four unaltered chords:

The next progression uses an altered IV chord and is an alteration of the previous progression:

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