Jazz School: Chord Voicings: Dominant 7 “Triad Over Root”

A commonly-used voicing for a Dominant 7th Chord is to play the root in your left hand and the triad formed by the 3, 5, and b7 in your right…

Dominant 7 Chord “Triad Over Root” Voicing

It’s useful to think of this as Edim/C…

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Homework

Using your ears and knowledge of scales and chord structure, “transpose” this voicing to all spellings in three musically-useful patterns:

1. Chromatically Ascending: C > Db > D > Eb > E > F > Gb > G > Ab > A > Bb > B > C.
2. Chromatically Descending: C > B > Bb > A > Ab > G > Gb > F > E > Eb > D > Db > C.
3. Cycle of Dominants: C > F > Bb > Eb > Ab > Db > Gb > B > E > A > D > G > C.

Doing so will develop an enormous chord vocabulary that you will know by ear, intellect, eye, and muscle… laying a rock solid foundation for fluent improvisation.

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