The augmented chord is really useful and just a little bit strange. Because it’s a symmetrical chord (made up of equal intervals) you can’t invert it without creating a new augmented chord, and its instability can be incredibly useful for moving progressions forward, say into a ii-V-I chord sequence, or even a key change.

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00:00 Augmented chords are useful if…
00:39 What are augmented chords?
03:04 Wait — they’re SYMMETRICAL!?
05:57 A little instability goes a long way
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