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.

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 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 ...

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 ...

For example, Emin, F#m and Bbm were considered Minor chords. 7th: A seventh chord has seventh interval in addition to a Major or Minor triad. A Major 7th consists of a Major triad and an additional ...

Major-seventh chords, to most ears, are pretty chords. They are not bluesy, and when used delicately so as not to overdo the effect, are beautiful. Whereas dominant 7 th chords are bluesy, and ...