7th Chords Explained: Your Music Theory Homework (Episode 1)

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[@emilyteigland4887]

This made SO much sense THANK YOU! The chart is brilliant and I’m so excited to watch the rest of this series! I’m taking AP music theory next year, so I’m pumped that I’ll have these videos to help prep 🥳

[@PhillyDawg98]

Never having learned about any music theory in my life and watching this made 100% sense. Great job explaining it!

[@MikkoLaulainen]

Me: saves this video for later knowing I'll never end up watching it

[@stevedecker1166]

Hey, it's time to watch this video!

[@calebsherman2746]

So accurate 😭

[@The0rnate]

Hey WHAT?! I've got the bell rung and occasionally pop in for videos. Always great content, but time's finite. I enjoy music and music theory quite a bit and have casually played saxophone for a long time. THIS VIDEO clears up SO MUCH about chords to me!! Being in band through high school and never playing much piano, strings, or improv, I never learned too much about chords. This concisely put that all in context for me and I'm super excited about that. Thank you so much!!

[@voliteon]

After 20 years of piano/music on and off, and knowing these chords separately, I'd never actually seen this explained with this logic. Incredible. Thank you! :)

[@liamkaloy]

I spends some serious hours on Rick, Adam and Jake music theory videos and in the last days even more advances stuff on NewJazz and I never saw this (actually very basic stuff) so well explained. This should be lesson zero, even before lesson one.

[@theopminer952]

The reason the dominant 7 doesn’t have any symbols next to it, is because it was and still is the most commonly used 7 chord, so they wound up dropping the notation they used since everyone would know what they were talking about. Mainly because it originated on the V chord, making it diatonic, (part of the scale, not needing any augmentations). It was not often that people used dominant 7 chords when not on the dominant of the scale, at least for a while.

[@raulomargarcia]

Such a great explanation and visual aid to teach concept.

[@nicholasfroman2138]

Hey man, I love the way you showed the chords! When I teach this lesson, I have never thought to break it down in a chart like this! Looks amazing and so clear! I'm definitely stealing this ;) Thanks for the content!

[@claudelatham3864]

Hey Chris, I love the fact that you're doing this when I was going through theory it was just garbage and you explained it and I'm out of university for three years and I understand it

[@ITZTHEBEATLES4221]

Where was this when I was starting out music school, totally cool!

[@Waggzles]

wow this is very helpful. my band class is just starting to learn chords :)

[@cavalier36]

This is awesome

[@flamingosextet8649]

Bonus round: in the circle of fifths (known to its friends as ii7-V7-I) the sevenths resolve to the thirds and the thirds resolve to the sevenths:)

[@Gamer27983]

HYPER THEORYYYY

[@exoticgamer5866]

I think a cool cover you could do is “buckjump” by trombone shorty

[@jaredmolina2397]

If an augmented 3rd doesnt exist then how would you spell a C diminished major 7th chord?
C-Eb-Gb-B what's the interval between the Gb and the B?
It was a very good and informative video, this is th only question I'm left with.

[@classicaltrombone]

That's a sneaky one! "diminished major 7th" is shorthand for something that is actually a 7th alteration (as I speak of at the end of this video). That same chord is really a C minor-major 7th flat 5. (CmM7b5), but folks decided diminished major 7th was an accurate and easier way to read/write it!

[@jaredmolina2397]

@@classicaltrombone ok I see why its considered an alteration saying C minor Major 7th flat 5 is a mouthful. But the other part of my question was what the name for the interval between the Gb eand the B was? Would you be able to call it a perfect 4th or is it some sort of third?

[@classicaltrombone]

​@@jaredmolina2397 Yes personally I would call it a 4th. When you get deep into analysis there *might* be a reason to call it something else depending on the functionality, but for my purposes no matter what you call the notes: 3 half steps = minor 3rd, 4 half steps = major 3rd, 5 half steps = perfect 4th.

[@bro748]

@@jaredmolina2397 Technically the interval between Gb and B would be considered an augmented third. There are very few contexts where it actually matters if you call it that or not.

[@38telephones]

Me trying to play a chord on trombone...

[@evlowbrass]

This is genius.

[@hugo54758]

7:44 Diminished chords stacking minor thirds are not seventh chords because their fourth note is a sixth not a seventh.

[@newmariobrothers4617]

Still waiting on Video game symphony 5

[@aviatorrl163]

Can you play Leave the Door Open please!!! I love that song :)

[@i_cam]

just gonna preface with I don't actually know everything about the Neapolitan chord, but as far as "18th century classical theory or whatever" is concerned isn't it supposed to be a predominant thing? like if you use it to go straight to tonic as you do in the main jingle, would calling it a Neapolitan chord as if you were doing classical analysis/ following classical conventions be appropriate as opposed to just saying "b2 major chord" as you would in like jazz or other more modern systems. like this is coming from someone who kinda dislikes the "not just calling things what they actually are" aspect of classical theory, despite "Neapolitan" being a very fun word, and i live in fear that classical people will attack anyone for "incorrectly using the classical word in a slightly different context".

[@LauraDelvecchio]

Wow you just made this so easy for me to understand and i gotta tell you i don't understand a fucking thing about music theory.