In this voicing, you’re playing a Minor 7 chord with the b5 interval much higher. Placing this interval higher gives you the same diminished, slightly jazzy sound, but without the jarring sound ...

From bossanovas to Carole King and even James Bond villains, the major seventh can completely change your song’s mood.

In guitar circles, describing a chord as ‘G’ without any other information would usually mean a G major chord. Once we get into minor chords ... a chord beyond the 7th, we start adding ...

Harmonic minor keys are used when writing ... In the jazz styles of Gershwin and Kern, the dominant seventh was often substituted with an augmented chord.This gave the tonic-dominant a new and ...

All the chords built on other notes in the scale of C are minor, except chord VII - the notes B – D – F, which is diminished. When a seventh is added to a chord this is known as a seventh chord.