Download the FREE Chord Progression Cheat Sheet (1989, p144) Burt Bacharach Anthology, New York, Warner Brothers The 'Real Easy' Ear Training Book, pages unmarked. '.the most famous major seventh chord in the history of music, the one that opens Chicago's 'Colour My World'.' What to Listen for in Rock: A Stylistic Analysis, p. 103) Revolution in the Head: The Beatles' Records and the Sixties. 'A Royal Scam: The Abstruse and Ironic Bop-Rock Harmony of Steely Dan', p. (The Amaj 7 demonstrates the movable chord shapes.) To the right of the | is another way of playing the same chord. In standard tuning, the left is the low E string. Pieces which feature prominent major seventh chords include: Tadd Dameron's ' Lady Bird', and ' This Guy's in Love with You', by Burt Bacharach and Hal David. Still, seven of that song's fourteen chords, including the tonic, are major sevenths or ninths, demonstrating the primacy of that chord type. ' Colour My World', even though the song departs from the usual pattern described above by 'colouring' the harmonic succession with several chromatic chords. The most famous major seventh chord in the history of music, the one that opens. In other styles, major seventh and minor seventh chords generally mix (usually with eleventh chords.) to create a diatonic composite in either major or minor mode. In soul and disco, a tonic minor seventh harmony often alternated with a dominant seventh or dominant ninth chord on. Moving into the 1970s to replace the prominence of the dominant seventh chord as a stable tonic more common in the first fifteen years of the rock era, the major seventh was common in all styles, 'pervading soul, country rock, soft rock, MOR (middle-of-the-road styles), jazz rock, funk, and disco.' Music theorist Ken Stephenson continues: Ĭommon in jazz since the Jazz Age of the 1920s, major seventh chords appeared frequently in compositions of genres influenced by jazz in the subsequent decades, such as traditional pop, bossa nova, and easy listening. Later examples of tonic major seventh chords include Henry Mancini's Theme from Charlie's Angels, Joseph Kosma's ' Autumn Leaves', The Beatles' ' This Boy', Eagles' ' One of These Nights', Bread's ' Make It With You', America's ' Tin Man', Blood Sweat & Tears' ' You've Made Me So Very Happy', the third (main) part of Paul McCartney and Wings' ' Band On The Run', Carly Simon's ' The Right Thing to Do', and Chicago's ' Colour My World'. Audio playback is not supported in your browser.

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