Dominant
Chords
Get the Job Done
Many
people feel like they’ve done a job well when they’ve:
•
had a satisfying day at the office;
•
just made the last payment on their mortgage;
•
had the last effective word in an argument;
•
pocketed lost cash on the street, because nobody was around for
miles and miles and miles;
•
completed a composition with a satisfying dominant seventh to
tonic cadence.
Now obviously the last bullet point is the most
important on the list. Well, it is more important than having the
last word in an argument! That’s my argument anyway! So there!
Here is
a list of three dominant seventh chords and their keys of origin.
These chords are constructed on the dominant degree (the fifth note)
of a major or a minor
scale. They are an important part of harmonic vocabulary throughout
many eras including jazz.
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