The most common way to play a chord is known as the root position, meaning the root of the chord is the lowest note played, with the third and fifth notes above it.
But you don’t always have to play chords that way, in fact you can use either the third or fifth note as the lowest tone and it will still sound fine.
Before we get into that, let’s back up and look at things in a bit more detail:
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We’ve talked a little bit about major and minor chords, and now I want to talk about the next most common category of chords – 7th chords.
Seventh chords are used in all kinds of music, but they’re most commonly found in rock, blues and jazz.
Putting the Pieces Together
A typical major chord is built on three tones, the root, third and fifth of a given major scale. In the case of a G major scale, the notes will be G B and D.
Seventh chords add one more note – you guessed it, the 7th. In this post we’ll look at the three most common types of 7th chords, the dominant 7th, the major 7th and the minor 7th.
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