![]() ![]() The four chords in figure 1, played one chord per bar, will give you the opening of George Harrison’s Something, which has an amazing chord sequence for all of its nine-bar verses. Some chord sequences use major seven and seven chords in succession. The F shape we have here uses the “thumb over” approach, together with some strategic muting of open strings. ![]() The seven chord, on the other hand, has an unstable quality and seems to want to push on to another chord – in the case of C7 the next chord would often be F major. It’s quite common for a jazzy tune to end on a major seventh chord. The major seven has a dreamy quality and is harmonically stable. Both the third and the root are doubled.Īs you can see, Cmaj7 and C7 are not the same thing. C7 has just 1, 3 and b7 because in this voicing the flattened seventh is actually taking the place of the fifth. In this voicing Cmaj7 has the notes 1, 3, 5 and 7, and the third is doubled. Remember the numbers at the bottom of the chord diagram show you how the notes of the chord relate to the major scale built on the same root. C Flat D Flat E Flat F Flat G Flat A Flat B Flat All the chords in the key of C flat major are made up of these seven notes, and each note gets to be the root note for one of the chords, thus making seven triad chords in this key. So the formula for a “seven” chord is major triad (C-E-G) plus minor seventh (C-B b) we refer to it as “C seven”. For reference, here are the notes in the C flat major scale. ![]() The minor seventh is two frets lower than an octave. To make the C7 chord, put your first finger back down on the B string and add the B flat, which is the minor seventh, using your pinky on the G string, third fret. ![]()
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