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 fifth degree (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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