A commonly-used voicing for a Minor Seventh Chord is to play the root in your left hand and the triad formed by the b3, 5, and b7 in your right…
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A sparse, light, open texture is achieved by simply playing the root and seventh of the chord in your left hand…
A logical and musical next step is play the most basic voicing for a C Minor Seventh chord in our left hand in block form…
Let’s begin our exploration of commonly-used chord voicings for a C Minor Seventh chord with the most basic arrangement of notes…
This tasty two-fisted voicing for a Major 7 Chord contains all seven notes in the Lydian Scale stacked in thirds up from the root…
This tasty Major Seventh Chord voicing works great when used sparingly in jazz or pop ballads…
For a very open and hip sound, try this two-fisted voicing in perfect fourths with three notes in each hand…
Although not technically a seventh chord, this colorful, less dissonant alternative to a Major 7 Chord typically serves a similar function and works great in jazz ballads and slow Latin tunes…
For a full, but simple and open sound, trying voicing the Major 7 Chord as a 1 and 5 (a perfect 5th) in the left hand and the definitive tones 3 and 7 (that also form a perfect fifth) in the right…
A standard way to get a jazzier sound is to add “color tones” to the basic seventh chord. A commonly-used color tone is the “9” (or “2” if you like)…