Jazz Standards & Showtunes Made Easy. 2 2
Left hand 7th chords. 3 3
Up to now, you've been playing, first of all, 4 4
right hand chords with left hand bass note. 5 5
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Then, we're adding sevenths. 7 7
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It's more of a pop style, when you're playing a ballad style. 9 9
[MUSIC] 10 10
Okay? 11 11
You've got some blues voicings. 12 12
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So, none of those sound particularly jazzy. 14 14
You get more of a jazz sound if you start to play full four note seventh chords in 15 15
the left hand. 16 16
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Okay, sounds a bit more jazzy. 18 18
Now, playing seventh chords in your left hand is different from how you learned to 19 19
form them in your right hand. 20 20
So, to form seventh chords in your right hand, 21 21
you learn to move your thumb from the root note to the seventh chord. 22 22
So, for instance, 23 23
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You're in C major. 25 25
Because you were playing the root in the left hand anyway, 26 26
you didn't need it in the right hand anymore. 27 27
So you move from the root down to the either major seventh, one left, or 28 28
the seventh, which was two left. 29 29
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C, C major seventh, C7. 31 31
But to form seventh chords in your left hand for 32 32
use with these show tune melodies, 33 33
the seventh note is simply added to the basic three note chord. 34 34
So, there's your three note chord. 35 35
C, E, G, first, third, fifth. 36 36
And you add the 7th. 37 37
So when you're adding the 7th in the right hand, major 7th is one left. 38 38
So it's still one left of the root. 39 39
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So that's C major 7. 41 41
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When you added C7 in the right hand, 43 43
[MUSIC], 44 44
you moved from the root two left. 45 45
So that's still the seven. 46 46
Okay? So that's C7. 47 47
In the next page, you're going to learn is C family seventh chords. 48 48
Remember from book one, you learned the C family basics triads. 49 49
[SOUND] C, D minor, E minor, F, G, A minor, B diminished, back to C. 50 50
Do you remember how you learned them? 51 51
Three majors, C F G. 52 52
Three minors. 53 53
[SOUND] D minor, E minor, A minor. 54 54
And one diminished chord, the baby chord, remember built on the last group of scale. 55 55
[SOUND] B diminished. 56 56
[SOUND] Okay, so it’s going to look very similar in the left hand with just 57 57
the added note, from the added seventh on each chord. 58 58
So 59 59
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So everything’s a white chord, every chord looks exactly the same, 61 61
just moved on to a particular note. 62 62
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And you can memorize them the same again. 64 64
So there's three majors. 65 65
C major 7, [SOUND] F major 7, [SOUND] G 7, [SOUND] D minor 7, [SOUND] E minor 7, 66 66
[SOUND]. 67 67
So three minors. 68 68
A minor 7, [SOUND] and B diminished. 69 69
[SOUND] And technically that's called a B half diminished 7. 70 70
Don't worry about that for now. 71 71
You can work that out later. 72 72
Just call up diminished 7 for now. 73 73
So B diminished [SOUND] and it's got a 7th on it. 74 74
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Back to C major 7. 76 76
So practice those over and over lock your fingers. 77 77
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