7th Chords With a Flat 5th - C7-5, F7-5, G7-5, etc.

7th Chords With a Flat 5th – Root, 3rd, Flat 5th, Flat 7th

Good morning, this is Duane. We’ve been talking about various kinds of 7th chords and we’ve already been through several of them already. We’ve taken a major 7th chord, a dominant 7th chord, a minor 7th chord, a half diminished 7th chord and a diminished 7th chord. Today I’d like to take up 7th chords with a flat 5th. It would look like this. It would just be like a 7th chord but you lower the 5th a half step. The reason for that, in other words how you would use it would be, just say you’re playing along and you’re going from a C chord, a C 7th chord, where does the C 7th chord want to go? It wants to go to F, doesn’t it? C 7th wants to go to F on the circle of force. It’s just a natural inclination to go there.

If you’re moving from C to F by using that, you’re kind of doing a half step slide into F. It just makes the chord more pregnant to get to F. Let me take it in context. See that? You can play that okay, it’s just the 7th chord but if you flat the 5th, you get a more, a chord that wants to move more because it’s like that chord, it’s like a half step, G flat 7th to F, isn’t it? It’s kind of a half step slide in a way. Okay, so let’s go through all the 7th chords and flat the 5th, okay?

That was C 7th. Let’s go to G 7th, flat the 5th. F 7th, flat the 5th. It looks kind of like that. It’s kind of strange but, it’s right here. The flatting C, flatting the 5th. Let’s see, D flat 7th, flat the 5th. E flat 7th, flat the 5th. A flat 7th, flat the 5th. G flat 7th, flat the 5th. B flat 7th, flat the 5th. B 7th, flat the 5th. That’s all there is to it. Of course you do the same thing on the left hand as you’re doing on the right hand. There is a very useful chord, you don’t use it much but it adds some taste to your musical meal if you use that occasionally.

That’s it for the flat 5th, the 7th with the flat 5th. Tomorrow we’re going to take up one more kind of 7th chord and I think that will be all. I’ll talk about that tomorrow. If you enjoy these kinds of tips, come on over to playpiano.com and sign up for our series of tips. Hope to see you there. Bye bye for now.

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