Kiyoshi Osawa
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Mexico City, Mexico
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Posted 16 Jun 2004 1:24 pm |
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I was doodling around with chord spelling and construction after reading through this site.
Before reading it, I lived in the bliss of ignorance, thinking I could play minor dominant 7th chords. But then, after reading through all that (which i think I found from another post on this forum) I understood that what makes a chord dominant is the tritone interval between 3rd and 7th. Not necesarily just the b7th.
So this guy mentions in passing the 6th chord, which is a big part of western swing, and I realized if I want to make a dominant minor chord, I would have to double flat the seventh, in effect, making it a sixth, to maintain the tritone interval.
All this because I wanted to play a Dominant V7 chord in a minor key...
So am I understanding this correctly? or does a dominant 7th chord with a flat 3rd function just as well in a progression?
anyway, hope this is the right place to ask.
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Kiyoshi
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