Seventh Chords 2

Question 1

What is a seventh chord with a diminished triad and a minor seventh?

Answer 1

Half diminished seventh

Question 2

What is a half diminished seventh chord?

Answer 2

A seventh chord with a diminished triad and a minor seventh.

Question 3

How is a half diminished seventh chord labeled?

Answer 3

With a slashed superscript circle.

Question 4

What does a slashed superscript circle indicate?

Answer 4

A half diminished seventh chord.

Question 5

What is a seventh chord with a diminished triad and a diminished seventh?

Answer 5

Fully diminished seventh chord

Question 6

What is a fully diminished seventh chord?

Answer 6

A seventh chord with a diminished triad and a diminished seventh.

Question 7

How is a fully diminished seventh chord labelled?

Answer 7

With an open superscript circle.

Question 8

What does an open superscript circle indicate?

Answer 8

A fully diminished seventh chord.

Question 9

How do you build a seventh chord?

Answer 9

Take a basic triad and add a note that is a seventh above the root.

Question 10

How are the different types of seventh chords distinguished?

Answer 10

By both type of triad and type of seventh used.

Question 11

What is the Seventh (or Dominant seventh) chord?

Answer 11

A major triad and a minor seventh.

Question 12

What is a Major Seventh chord?

Answer 12

A Major triad and a Major Seventh.

Question 13

What is a minor seventh chord?

Answer 13

A minor triad and a minor seventh.

Question 14

What is a Diminished Seventh chord?

Answer 14

A diminished triad and a diminished seventh.

Question 15

What is a Half-diminished chord?

Answer 15

A diminished triad and a minor seventh.3

Question 16

What is the easy way to remember where each seventh is?

Answer 16

The Major seventh is one half step below the octave.
The minor seventh is one half step below the major seventh.
The diminished seventh is one half step below the minor seventh.

Question 17

What is a seventh chord?

Answer 17

Extension of the tertian triad consisting of four pitches arranged vertically in thirds.

OR the combination of a triad and an interval of a seventh.

Question 18

What is the fourth pitch in a seventh chord?

Answer 18

It is a third above the fifth in a triad and is some sort of interval of a seventh above the root of the chord.

Question 19

What two aspects of quality need to be noted when identifying 7th chords?

Answer 19

1. The quality of the triad

2. The quality of the seventh in relation to the root.

Question 20

What is a seventh chord built from?

Answer 20

A root, third, fifth and seventh.

Question 21

What is a Major 7th chord?

Answer 21

A root, a major third, a perfect fifth and a major seventh
OR a major triad and a major seventh
OR or a note, a major third, a minor third and a major third
OR a major triad with a major third on top.

Question 22

What is a minor 7th chord?

Answer 22

A root, its minor third, perfect fifth and minor seventh.
OR a minor triad and a minor seventh
OR a note, a minor third, major third and a minor third
OR a minor triad with a minor third on top

Question 23

What is a Dominant 7th chord?

Answer 23

A root, its major third, perfect fifth and minor seventh
OR a major triad and a minor seventh
OR a note, a major third, minor third and a minor third
OR a major triad with a minor third on top.

Question 24

What are the other names for a Dominant 7th chord?

Answer 24

7 chord

Major-minor seventh chord

Question 25

What is a half diminished 7th chord?

Answer 25

A root, its minor third, diminished fifth and minor seventh OR a diminished triad and a minor seventh OR or a note, a minor third, a minor third and a major third OR a diminished triad and a major third

Question 26

What is a fully diminished or diminished 7th chord?

Answer 26

A root, its minor third, diminished fifth and diminished seventh OR a diminished triad and a diminished seventh OR a note, a minor third, a minor third and a minor third OR a diminished triad and a minor seventh

Question 27

What is a major seventh?

Answer 27

One half step below an octave.

Question 28

What is a minor seventh?

Answer 28

One half step below the major seventh | OR two half steps below the octave

Question 29

What is a diminished seventh?

Answer 29

One half step below the minor seventh | OR three half steps below the octave

Question 30

Where does the name 7th chord come from?

Answer 30

The interval of a seventh between the root and the top note.

Question 31

How do you distinguish various kinds of sevenths chords?

Answer 31

1. By identifying the quality of the triad on the bottom as major, minor, diminished or augmented; and 2. By identifying the quality of the seventh interval as major, minor or diminished.

Question 32

What is one way to identify intervals of a seventh?

Answer 32

A major 7th is a half step from the octave above the root. A minor 7th is two half steps from the octave above the root. A diminished 7th is three half steps from the octave above the root.

Question 33

What is the abbreviation for a dominant 7th chord?

Answer 33

7

Question 34

What is the abbreviation for a major 7th chord?

Answer 34

M7 | Maj7

Question 35

What is the abbreviation for a minor 7th chord?

Answer 35

m7 | min7

Question 36

What is the abbreviation for a half diminished 7th chord?

Answer 36

superscript circle with a slash through it and a 7

Question 37

What is the abbreviation for a fully diminished (diminished) 7th chord?

Answer 37

Superscript open circle and a 7

Question 38

What type of 7th chord is implied when not otherwise specified?

Answer 38

A dominant seventh or seventh being a major triad together with a minor seventh.

Question 39

What is a minor-major 7th chord?

Answer 39

A root, its minor third, perfect fifth and major seventh OR a minor triad and a major seventh OR a note, a minor third, minor third and a major third OR a minor triad with a major third on top.

Question 40

What is the most important of all the seventh chords?

Answer 40

The dominant seventh (referred to as the seventh).

Question 41

What is an augmented seventh chord?

Answer 41

A root, its major third, augmented fifth and a minor seventh. OR an augmented triad with a minor seventh.

Question 42

What is an augmented major seventh chord?

Answer 42

A root, its major third, augmented fifth and a major seventh. OR an augmented triad with a major seventh.

Question 43

What is a diminished major 7th chord?

Answer 43

A root, its minor third, diminished fifth and major seventh. | OR a diminished triad and a major seventh