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What I'd like to talk about right now is building
a seventh chord, a seventh chord.
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If you look on the screen you'll see a major scale.
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As I've told you before, everything's going
to come right from the major scale.
So if we're going to build a major seventh chord
and we're going to start with C major 7, we're going to start with the triad,
C, E, and G. Then we're just going to add the seventh degree on top.
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There you have a C major seventh chord.
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Now if I were to start it on the F and build a major seventh chord on a F,
I'd start once again with the triad, F triad.
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And then we just simply add the seventh.
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Now one way to find the seventh really quickly
is simply by coming down a half step from the root.
And in this case, I'm playing an F. That will be my root.
A half step down from the E.
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I'll just play it up an octave.
That's my seventh.
So we have 1, 3, 5, 7.
That is your major 7 chord.
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So so far we have C major seventh.
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And F major 7.
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You can do a whole song just playing those two chords.
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Major seventh chord.
Starts with the triad, major triad, and then you add a seventh on top.
The seventh degree of the scale.
Remember that interval of the major seventh.
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That will be on top.
And then in the middle you have the third, the E. The 5, the G.
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F major 7, major triad, and put the seventh on top.
Remember the little trick to finding the seventh really quickly.
Think down a half step from the root.
You have an E. There it is on top.
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F Major seven chord.
C major 7.
F major 7.
C major 7.
F major 7.
Now the next seventh chord I'd like to talk about
is the dominant seventh chord.
We're also going to be talking about the dominant seventh chord
when we play the blues.
To go from a major seventh chord to a dominant seventh chord,
you simply lower the seventh by a half step.
And it becomes a C7.
C7 is C dominant 7.
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Same thing with the F. It starts with the F tried.
F major 7 you have the E natural.
To make it a dominant 7 you lower the E natural and make it a flat 7.
Now you have a dominant 7 chord.
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So there you have it.
Major seventh chords and dominant seventh chords.
Major seventh chord is simply a major triad
with the seventh degree of the scale on top.
A dominant seventh chord you simply lower that seventh down a half step.
Make it a dominant chord.
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Major seventh chords and dominant seventh chords.