Wrong! This would make a major 7th chord. For a regular 7th chord, we need root, 3rd, 5th and b7 – but to say 'a flat 7' would be too easy to confuse with the chord A b7, a completely different ...

Where the major seventh differs, is that it is only one semitone below the keynote, so in a chord of C major 7, the ‘major’ refers to the actual note and not the major/minor tonality of the chord.

Extended chords add other notes from the scale to the existing root-3rd-5th triad (for example, C-E-G), so if we add a 7th, we’d call this a major 7th chord (C-E-G-B). We can extend up to a 13th ...

This is a hark-back to the days of jazz and blues, where the sound of this flattened 7th became standard. This also explains why we have to differentiate between this chord type, and the chord ...

Harmonic minor keys are used when writing chords. There is another ... Harmonic minors use the relative major key signature and raise the seventh note of the scale. For example, in A harmonic ...

A dominant 7th is built on the dominant note. It functions as a type of chord V. In this example you will hear both chord I of C Major, and the dominant 7th chord. You can follow along with the ...