Term the Day: 7th Chord · Learning Jazz Violin

Term the Day: 7th Chord

7th chords are four notes chords, made up from clustering thirds from within a scale on top of each other.

People at the start of their “theory” journey often get this term confused with 7 chords which is the term people use for Dominant chords. These ARE types of 7th chords but are more specifically major triads with a flattened seventh on top. They are found as chord V from the major scale.

They might even be confused with “chord vii” which is the seventh chord that is made from the seventh degree of the major scale and is a m7b5 chord.

Confusing I know.

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