Adding major sevenths to chords can be the equivalent of letting in more colour and sunlight. Basic chordal character and ...

Wrong! This would make a major 7th chord. For a regular 7th chord, we need root, 3rd, 5th and b7 – but to say 'a flat 7' would be too easy to confuse with the chord A b7, a completely different ...

Try to play this interval on a keyboard or piano. A chord is a group ... In this example you will hear both chord I of C Major, and the dominant 7th chord. You can follow along with the notation ...

Where the major seventh differs, is that it is only one semitone below the keynote, so in a chord of C major 7, the ‘major’ refers to the actual note and not the major/minor tonality of the chord.