6 Famous Songs That Use Dominant 7th Chords
- Something – The Beatles.
- “Hallelujah” – Jeff Buckley.
- “(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction” – The Rolling Stones.
- “Somewhere Over The Rainbow”
- “Nothing Else Matters” – Metallica.
- “Purple Haze” – Jimi Hendrix.
What is a flat 7 in music?
The 7th is the seventh note of the major scale. To flat a note means to lower it by one note (meaning one fret lower). Therefore a flat 7th means one note lower than the 7th.
What is a flattened 7th?
In music, the subtonic is the degree of a musical scale which is a whole step below the tonic note. In a major key, it is a lowered, or flattened, seventh scale degree (♭ ). It appears as the seventh scale degree in the natural minor and descending melodic minor scales but not in the major scale.
What do you call a chord with a flat 7?
In music theory, the half-diminished seventh chord (also known as a half-diminished chord or a minor seventh flat five chord) is a seventh chord composed of a root note, together with a minor third, a diminished fifth, and a minor seventh (1, ♭3, ♭5, ♭7).