Chord

A Augmented Triad

  • Aaug
  • A+
  • A#5
Space plays and stops
Notes and intervals
AM3C#M3E#

A Augmented Triad, written Aaug, is built from A, C# and E#: the root, major 3rd and sharp 5th.

In the progressions here, Aaug is the I+ of the Major Line Cliché in A.

Scales that fit

  1. Mode of Whole Tone

    A Whole Tone

    The whole tone scale is in open, suspended harmony and works well with #5 chords.

  2. Mode of Melodic Minor

    A Lydian Augmented

Voicings All 4