![]() ![]() ![]() Overall, the chord seems much more closely related to the diminished tonality than the major seventh tonality, but adds a bit of stability and brightness to an otherwise tense sound. Rearranging and respelling the notes, one finds a potential reason for its functional sensibilities: B(♭9)! The chord contains a major triad, and that can give this set of notes a sense of stability that diminished seventh chords lack.Īnother cool thing: This chord can go really well with the G harmonic major scale, and you can make some beautiful sounds out of that. It can function also very similarly to a fully diminished chord: iii7 to ♭iii°maj7 to iim7 sounds nice in a functional jazz context. Built on the 4th scale degree in major, it makes a nice minor-plagal-ish sound similar to that of ivmaj7. This is often done in the first bar of the jazz-standard 'Misty' by Erroll Garner.Īs a final note, also note that this chord can be written/interpreted/heard as a slash chord: B/C.īut in all seriousness, though I'd call it °maj7, I've seen plenty of use for that chord. In this usage, it could resolve to a Cmaj7 chord by chromatic movement of the Eb and F# to the E and G, respectively. Try adding the diminished 7th to see if you still like the sound. So in this context your chord would be a Cdim maj7 (even though you leave out the diminished 7th Bbb/A). All its notes are contained in the C diminished scale:Īnd the major seventh (B) is a possible tension for a dim7 chord. In that case it functions as a diminished seventh chord. Of course, this is also an altered dominant chord.īut it can also function as a chord in its own right, i.e. It could also be the upper structure of an Ab7(#9) chord: Used in that way, it is an altered dominant chord. If we use this idea for every note of the scale, we get all 7 chords in the key of G flat major.I usually use this chord as an upper structure of a D13(b9) chord: This is because G flat major has six flats in its key signature.Įach chord is also called a triad and consists of the root note, the 3rd above and the 5th above (in the scale). ![]() Notice that we have a Bb, Eb, Ab, Db, Gb, Cb in all the chords with these notes. Below you can see the G flat major scale and then the chords made from each note. As with all keys, we can create chords on each note of the G flat major scale. ![]()
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