Rock Piano Chords

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As you learned in the previous post, rock music relies heavily on chords. At the same time it is strongly influenced by the blues, especially in its early times during the 50s and 60s.

From blues to rock piano

The following example moves from the I to the IV to the V chord [...]  read more

Major Seventh Chords

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Major Seventh Chords appear a lot in jazz as well, because they appear on the scale degrees I and IV of the major scale. The I major seventh chord is the home base to which all resolutions lead, the most common one being the 2 – 5 – 1 chord progression.

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Dominant Seventh Chords

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To expand your chordal vocabulary, let’s start with dominant seventh chords. These chords include the flatted seventh of the respective key, thus consisting of the root, third, fifth (the major triad) and flatted seventh. You [...]  read more