The major 7th chord is produced by adding a fourth note to a three-note major chord. Let’s look at how you do this. 1. Making a major chord. This is the C major scale. As you can see there are seven ...

Here are five 7th chords, the theory underpinning them, and some ideas for modifying them. They are so commonplace that we take the theory behind them for granted.

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’ ...

It's time to throw some shapes on the fretboard, navigating using the CAGED system, and deploying chord choices that makes players like John Frusciante such great rhythm players News Today's news ...

Terms such as ‘altered’ and ‘extended’ chords are relatively simple to explain. 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 ...

It’s so named because it’s the 7th from a major scale, and not the more usual flattened variety, associated with the blues. This becomes slightly more complicated with a chord such as Cm Maj7; the ...

The study demonstrates that while major chord usage has been stable in songwriting over the last 50 years, minor chord usage has been growing. And while it might seem that an increase in minor chords ...

A major seventh chord would not have been considered “consonant” in Beethoven’s time, but today it fits easily into jazz and other musical styles.

To many people, minor chord progressions in music “sound sad” while songs in a major key “sound happy”. But for researchers who study how people respond to music, it has always been ...