7th Chords Solved: The Secret Trick You’ve Been Missing!
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In this video, Adam breaks down three essential seventh chords and shares an instant formula to create these beautiful-sounding chords starting on any note. With a little help from the incredible Alicia Keys, he also unveils a secret trick that can transform the way you think and hear these shapes, If you're looking to move beyond regular triads and explore more complex, extended chords, then this is the video for you!
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Video Breakdown:
0:00 - Intro
0:42 - What Is a Seventh Chord?
2:04 - Major 7 Chords
3:51 - Dividing the Chord Symbol
4:55 - Minor 7 Chords
6:42 - Build Everything from Major
9:03 - Major 7 & Minor 7 Hack
11:12 - Alicia Keys Voicings
14:21 - 7 Chords
18:01 - Recap
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@thekeyscoach Ай бұрын
Thanks so much for watching! If you enjoyed the video, please do me a favour, and hit the LIKE and SUBSCRIBE button - this really helps our channel grow. We have so many exciting plans for the channel and community, and we can't wait to share them with you. Exciting stuff is on the horizon! 🚀 💫 Cheers, Adam x
@jameslifetimelearner 27 күн бұрын
Thanks for making Theory simple and fun. Be play ful with muse ic!
@stuartdickson6251 Ай бұрын
Much thanks. wow, retired guy, have learned some basic diatonic theory over the years playing guitar, you are showing me how to make all work together with taste and choice. Buying an electric piano for my 65th Bday was some of the best money i've ever spent. Have i been playing the wrong instrument for 50 years? Why, yes, quite possibly. Been looking for a guy like you. Please carry on Good Sir💙
@thekeyscoach Ай бұрын
That’s awesome Stuart! I may be biased… but I do believe piano is the best instrument! 😉 Thanks for all your support with the channel!
@richardbrown9760 Ай бұрын
As a guitarist you have given me a better understanding of how 7ths work. Thank you.
@thekeyscoach Ай бұрын
Glad to help! Thanks Richard!
@jameslifetimelearner 27 күн бұрын
“Loving you has made my life so beautiful…sung by Minnie Ripperton
@StratsRUs Ай бұрын
The major 7 always gives me " Moon River " vibes ..My Huck-leberry friend !
@thekeyscoach Ай бұрын
Absolutely!
@judahroused1168 26 күн бұрын
Your right bro...
@firstbazemmet6813 Ай бұрын
Love the insight into how the 7th introduces a minor tone to the major triad and a major tone to the minor triad. Also, I really appreciated the clarity into how or when to apply the flattened 7th. If it's not written, maj7 (🔼7), then its flattened 7th helps my understanding.
@thekeyscoach Ай бұрын
Thanks! So glad you found it useful. Will keep the theory vids coming!
@foshizy 29 күн бұрын
Great song example.. have always been fascinated with the intro
@marcgattuso6129 Ай бұрын
To the 7th and beyond. Thanks Adam. A great theory lesson broken down in an easy to follow manner. Well done.
@thekeyscoach Ай бұрын
Thanks Marc! 😊
@dazza42UK Ай бұрын
Great video. More approachable theory would be great. Something on passing chords or secondary dominants or anything Neo-soul would be fab.
@juanenrique8 Ай бұрын
As usual, tremendous lesson. Thanks a lot
@thekeyscoach Ай бұрын
My pleasure! Thanks 🙌
@rajanvijayudu1337 Ай бұрын
Every lesson i enjoy. Your teaching is amazing
@thekeyscoach Ай бұрын
Thank you! 😃
@richardblocher599 Ай бұрын
Wow! What an Amazing sound. I never thought about this method before, I just believed I could never build this with my hands. I am truly grateful, for you, and for sharing this kindness with us. At least now I have hope! Dick Blocher
@superjonz9958 Ай бұрын
I can definitely hear the “majorness” in minor 7 chords 😮
@Antonio-ti2he Ай бұрын
Would like to know how to use 7th, 9, and 11 chords in chording with rhythms to accompany a singer and sound like a pro while playing the chord for rhythm.
@thekeyscoach Ай бұрын
Great idea! Thanks Antonio!
@lisafrisbie8950 Ай бұрын
Thanks!
@thekeyscoach Ай бұрын
Thank you Lisa!
@wedgeproductions Ай бұрын
Great Video - thanks Adam
@thekeyscoach Ай бұрын
Glad you found it useful! Thanks!
@nickmorley1159 Ай бұрын
I really like this lesson, Adam. It's helped me think about 7ths differently.
@luismayol3145 20 күн бұрын
Thanks so much simple easy and great lesson. I´m a guitar player it´s good for me too
@thekeyscoach 20 күн бұрын
Awesome! Thanks!
@Schembre Ай бұрын
Love the theory. It’s been decades since I seriously studied so i welcome the recaps. Recognizing the triads burried inside a “poly chord” (so to say) is important for arrangements. Depending bass is so much nicer to listen to and your lesson makes it obvious how to examine the chord structure to devise such arrangements. I say keep the theory coming! I too am a bass player and guitar player, and unfortunately I only see these things in my head as a keyboard player.
@thekeyscoach Ай бұрын
Will keep the theory vids coming! So glad you enjoyed it and found it useful. Lots more on the way!!
@tubbytommy11 Ай бұрын
Great video thanks
@thekeyscoach Ай бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it!
@ScarletteFiesci Ай бұрын
Wow Adam another great video. Seriously wish you had been my teacher. Although I understand and have knowledge of these chords, Your tips on how to recognise them without labouring over the keyboard is so simple and would have been so very welcome when I started in the 70's. Also you always surprise me when you just hit the nail on the head and make the penny drop when you say there is a minor in the major chord and vice versa hence why you're hearing the opposite potentially. For years I just accepted that I couldn't always tell the difference between the major and or minor and how to identify them by ear. You are a genius man! You never cease to amaze me when you come up with these little gems and the light bulb just comes on and it's like Oh yeah - that is so obvious lol! I love music theory and I confess I am a theory nerd so always interested and eager to learn more quick tips and patterns. You just have to look at the circle of fifths and fourths to see that music is made up of just patterns which really helps with improvisation. I certainly will be purchasing your books Adam. Please let us know when they are released on sale. Keep the theory lessons coming, along with more improv vids. Thank you so so so much Adam. Really looking forward to the next one.
@KB-py6jd Ай бұрын
Another great lesson. Thanks.
@pdlawson100 Ай бұрын
Another great video, I’m learning loads and enjoying playing around with the ideas on piano. I actually like both the theory content and the more practical stuff equally
@thekeyscoach Ай бұрын
Awesome! Thanks!
@pdlawson100 Ай бұрын
@@thekeyscoach Really enjoying the podcast too by the way!
@thekeyscoach Ай бұрын
Brilliant! 👌 🙌
@uravghuman Ай бұрын
You didn't point out a very simple formula to form 7th chords: they are just Major and Minor chords stacked on top of each other! 1) MAJOR 7 chord = Major Triad of the root note + Minor Triad of the 3rd For example: Cmaj7 = C major triad (C E G) + E minor triad (E G B) The reverse is also true. 2) MINOR 7 chord = Minor Triad of the root note + Major Triad of the 3rd. E.g. Cm7 = C minor triad (C Eb G) + E major triad (E G# B)
@richarddechau4200 Ай бұрын
Thanks a million,
@frankc3834 Ай бұрын
This was great, thanks
@thekeyscoach Ай бұрын
Glad you enjoyed! 🎉
@crobinso2010 Ай бұрын
Make more sense if a TRI-ad were represented by the TRI-angle instead, and the 7th could be a 7 or a square or something.
@jameslifetimelearner 27 күн бұрын
Great idea,make your own chord key and write a book on the subject!
@hificomics Ай бұрын
great lesson ❤
@thekeyscoach Ай бұрын
Thank you! 🙌
@clairebedard4872 Ай бұрын
Thank you so much !!! 🙏
@thekeyscoach Ай бұрын
You're so welcome!
@jamesthompson5872 Ай бұрын
Awesome!
@thekeyscoach Ай бұрын
Thanks James!
@micksart Ай бұрын
Great lesson, thank you. I made the same discovery a few weeks back (Pink Floyd’s The great gig in the sky has some great maj7 rhs) and it was a eureka moment. I haven’t been playing long so always looking for any shortcuts to help progress. I also worked out the diminished chord business. Love a bit of music theory to get the old grey matter working.
@thekeyscoach Ай бұрын
Hi Mick - will check that out, it’s amazing when you see that link isn’t it! For me, sevenths add ambiguity - the combination of major and minor, or minor and major creates an added layer of depth and richness. Thanks for the support with the channel!
@urielstud Ай бұрын
The B is one of the strongest leading tones for C major. That’s probably why it sounds good even tho it Un-resolves the C chord.
@Ozgurs_piano_journey Ай бұрын
Hi Adam, great video as always alhtough I knew all of that!:) Could I propose that you create a video (or 2) on the usages of these 3 7th chords; I would even add the half dim7 & dim7 chords to that maybe? Sort of like song examples going into improvisation the same way you have been doing in the Elton John and Lionel Richie videos? That would really be great because although I know all of this, I`m really having difficulty using them when it comes to improvisation...Thanks so much and please keep it coming; I really enjoy your channel and have saved at least 80% of your videos to practice them regularly:)
@thekeyscoach Ай бұрын
Great idea! Thanks! So glad you're finding these videos useful!
@superjonz9958 Ай бұрын
Let’s goooooo🎉🎉🎉🎉
@thekeyscoach Ай бұрын
🚀 🙌
@superjonz9958 Ай бұрын
Yet another informative and mind-expanding lesson. Thanks,Adam! 🫶🏻
@ernestoroma5157 Ай бұрын
Grazie maestro
@thekeyscoach Ай бұрын
🙌 🎉
@GonzaloAgote Ай бұрын
Yahoo!!!!
@perfect237 Ай бұрын
Can you please take a look at Jacob Collier's "Bridge over troubled waters"? Listen to it and you'll know what I mean I need to know the music theory behind Tori's voice runs and riffs...*don't know if that's what they're called* Thanks 🎉
@thekeyscoach Ай бұрын
Great shout! 🙌
@TheVtester Ай бұрын
I like it ❤
@thekeyscoach Ай бұрын
🙌
@lawrencetaylor4101 Ай бұрын
Merci
@JamesRuga Ай бұрын
Give me the keyboard at the back please! 🤗
@briang5586 Ай бұрын
Very good thank you. Does that mean you can never have a minor 7 where the 7th is the major 7th. May be stating the ******* obvious but it will put my mind at rest.
@thekeyscoach Ай бұрын
Hi Brian - you can! It’s called a minor major7 - so in C that would be C, Eb, G and B and the formula is 1 b3 5 and 7. The chord symbol is Cm△. Hope that helps!
@briang5586 Ай бұрын
Thank you.
@ret01101 Ай бұрын
@@thekeyscoachI watched your presentation and downloaded the cheat sheet. It was so smooth, clear, easy to understand. Thank you. Practice and experimenting follows. But wait a minute, I think I am not done with all the 7 chords and this is bothering me. There is the forementioned minor major7, then half and diminished7 and searching on the net I can see there exists augmented major7 and augmented7. Am I missing something? Of course I cam make some research on the net, but how nice would be having all in a place in your brilliant presentation with your explanations. Thank you for reading this.
@briang5586 Ай бұрын
Been thinking more about minor major 7s. Logically I'd have thought these would have been the chords when you play diatonically up the major 7th scale....but you went to the the flatted 7. That's hard to get your mind round!
@sligon00 Ай бұрын
It sounds like he says C E flattend G , but I see it printed out as flatted E , am I hearing it wrong ?
@thekeyscoach Ай бұрын
Ah interesting - what time code is this? Will check it out.
@tombuur Ай бұрын
“Unless you see a triangle, it is a flattened 7” Really? I don’t see a triangle in Cmaj7. In fact that’s the way it is usually written in guitar music. Anyway, you make great videos.
@stuartdickson6251 Ай бұрын
Me thinks he ain't from around our parts, ...and ya he makes good vids. and ya Studio One Rules🙂
@liamonconlocha4898 Ай бұрын
@@stuartdickson6251small triangle also is symbolic for a major chord dudes
@garyking4032 Ай бұрын
... As he said at 3.42...
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