{"id":15418,"date":"2016-11-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-23T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hearandplay.com\/main\/?p=15418"},"modified":"2024-10-07T15:07:11","modified_gmt":"2024-10-07T23:07:11","slug":"choral-perspectives-to-the-ab-voicings-of-major-seventh-and-minor-seventh-chords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hearplaymain.wpenginepowered.com\/choral-perspectives-to-the-ab-voicings-of-major-seventh-and-minor-seventh-chords\/","title":{"rendered":"Choral Perspectives To The A&B Voicings Of Major Seventh And Minor Seventh Chords"},"content":{"rendered":"

In today’s lesson, we’ll be going deeper in our study of the A&B voicings of major seventh and minor seventh chords.<\/p>\n

Major seventh and minor seventh chords account for five out of the seven scale degree chords in the major key. If you do the math, that’s 71% of the scale degree chords in the major key.<\/p>\n

In addition to that, statistics has it that 40% of the seventh chords that are commonly played in gospel and jazz styles are major and minor seventh chords.<\/p>\n

It’s because of the importance of major seventh and minor seventh chords in harmony that we’re dedicating this lesson to showing you another perspective on how they can be voiced using the A&B voicing technique.<\/p>\n

A Quick Review On Seventh Chords<\/h2>\n

Any chord that encompasses seven degrees of a given scale can be classified as a seventh chord. In this segment, we’ll be reviewing two important seventh chords:<\/p>\n