In general, you'll find m7 chords feature considerably more in rock and blues than maj7 chords which tend to lean more towards ballads and jazz styles. From acoustic to mildly overdriven, m7 chords ...

Guitar lessons: You’d be forgiven for thinking that you’d use the minor scale to construct minor 7th chords, but that’s not quite how it works. All scales and chords are compared to the major scale, ...

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

As you know, by stacking another harmonised third on the top of a minor or major triad we end up with a four-note chord called a 7th. If we add a minor seventh to a minor triad a minor 7th chord is ...

GCSE Eduqas Harmony and tonality - Eduqas Chords Music contains notes in succession (melody) or notes in combination. When notes are played at the same time it is called harmony. The type of ...

A study suggests that minor and major seventh chords are the happiest sounds in music, but today’s songwriters are ditching them in favour of simple minor chords. But why does this matter?

MAUCH: The song "Happy" by Pharrell Williams uses a lot of minor seventh chords. Those are the ones that were introduced by disco essentially in the '70s, so they're still around.

Unexpectedly, they found that seventh chords —chords with four different notes rather than the usual three—had an even higher association with positive words, even in the case of minor seventh ...

7th chords are great for spicing up progressions where simple major and minor chords may not have quite enough personality. In this example a basic I–IV–V progression is boosted with major 7th ...