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Music Theory for Electronic Musicians

Lesson 26 of 31

Blues and the 7th Chord

 

Music Theory for Electronic Musicians

Lesson 26 of 31

Blues and the 7th Chord

 

Lesson Info

Blues and the 7th Chord

Let me tell you one more use for a dominant seven court. In a genre like the blues, we use seven chords for just about everything. Your tonic chord. You add a minor seventh to it to your five chord. You have the dominant seventh chord. Uh, in the four chord, you add a flat seventh. So all of the court to use our that dominant quality, that means it's a major chord with a Plat seven. That's what makes a blues sound as you use the one chord the forecourt in the five chord and you put that flat. Seven. The minor seven on all those major chords that is the blues. Um, in terms of core progressions, there's more to the blues and just that. But if you want that sound, uh, you don't resolve those dominant sevens correctly, right? Because 157 the dominant seven should not resolve to the one with a flat seven in it, right? Uh, it should resolve to a one, not a one with a flat seven, cause that's a note out of key. But that's okay. Um, that is what the blues is, Though the blues likes. Just add t...

hese sevens and treat everything like a dominant chord, a major chord with a minor seventh on it. So when I say flat seven, what I'm talking about is that major court with the minor seventh on it, even though it takes it out of key. That's just what makes the blues sound like the blues. So another use of the dominant seventh chord.

Class Description


This is a class designed for the electronic musician who wants to bring new energy and compositional strength to their tracks. In this class, we'll focus on learning how to organize pitches and rhythms to make dynamic, interesting melodies and harmonies. Experience with music therory, the ability to play an instrument, or read music is not necessary! We will focus on how to use your DAW as your instrument of creation.

Topics include:

  • Using the Piano Roll Editor
  • Octaves
  • Finding C and Middle C
  • The Perfect 5th
  • What it means to be "in key"
  • Moveable Patterns
  • Major and Minor Intervals
  • Building Triads
  • Chord Progressions
  • 7th Chords
... And much more!

Lessons

  1. Class Overview
  2. The Piano Roll Editor
  3. Octaves
  4. Using Octaves
  5. The Black Keys (not the band)
  6. Finding C and Middle C
  7. Section 1 Summary
  8. The Perfect Fifth
  9. Finding Fifths
  10. Being "In Key"
  11. The Pattern of a Key
  12. Fifth Examples
  13. Moveable Patterns
  14. The Major and Minor Third
  15. Building Triads
  16. Chord Progressions
  17. What is Diatonic?
  18. Finding All The Chords
  19. Roman Numerals
  20. Example Song Analysis No. 1
  21. Inversions
  22. 7th Chords - Overview
  23. Diatonic 7th Chords
  24. Maj7 (Major 7) Example
  25. Dominant 7th Chords
  26. Blues and the 7th Chord
  27. The Fourth
  28. The Second
  29. The Sixth
  30. Song Analysis No. 2
  31. Wrap Up

Reviews

exoslime
 

this is great and very helpfull class, i make and wirte music for more than 2 decades and never gave much about theory, i trusted my feelings to what sound good and what not. Bu t recently i became interested but it all seemed very difficult to me and i didnt got the points behind music theory and how everyhing works together. This class was a game changer for me.. music theory is so simple if you have somebody to explain it in words so that you finally can understand it, and thats Anthony, he is a brilliant guy and he explains it in a simple way that you can easily understand whats going on. This is perfectly the case with this course, the sections are short and to the point, not much talking around and leaving the path, you can make fast progress end learn how music theory works, this is a 5 Star ***** course and hopefully there is more to come

Emane Filali
 

Fabulous course. As a person with dyslexia, trying to remember the notes and chords as letters only is impossible. I love the visual way the chords are demonstrated and explained. I was originally put off by the "electronic" aspect, thinking it was only for learning how to use piano edit roller. However, as a beginner in playing the piano, this course is applicable to all who want to learn and understand music theory in an interesting visual way. Looking forward to next lesson. Will definately be purchasing the course after. Fantastic tutor and course.

Giulio Lazaretti
 

Very good class!! Makes it much easier to understand and apply the rules of theory. Anthony is also very wise to suggest to trust your ears, even if what you've written doesn't fit into those same rules. I am so very grateful for you putting this together, Anthony, and for making it available for the general public, Creative Live. I am also very glad I was given the opportunity to learn english in my home country (Brazil), in which many barely know how to read and write in our own native language (portuguese) due to our public education being so bad (which, by its turn, has to do with the myriad of vile creatures that inhabit our representative chambers). Tks XoXo!