Seventh Chords

The five seventh chords you'll meet most — dominant, major, minor, half-diminished and diminished — with their recipes and how they resolve.

What's inside

• Five seventh chords — dominant, major, minor, half-diminished, diminished — built on a note, with sound descriptions
• A recipe table: triad below, seventh above the root, semitone spacing, and an example built on C
• Seventh chords on every degree of a major key, with the true dominant seventh highlighted
• How a seventh resolves, and which note to drop when voicing with fewer than four parts