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GUEST,Boromir Do you think it's ok to play a maj 7th? (97* d) RE: Do you think it's ok to play a maj 7th? 22 Aug 02


one more time.

In the key of G, D is the dominant chord. C is the seventh note above D. Because we are in the key of G, C occurs naturally. So the seventh of the dominant is not flatted, but natural.

If we added a seventh to the tonic (G), it would be a major seventh because F is sharped within the G scale. We can flat that F# to F natural. Then it would be referred to as a flatted seventh.

We then can resolve the resulting chord (G7) to the subdominant (C) of the key. It is also possible to resolve the chord to A minor (known as a deceptive cadence). We could also resolve to an F# chord or B chord treating the minor seventh as an augmented sixth.


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