From bossanovas to Carole King and even James Bond villains, the major seventh can completely change your song’s mood.

There is a simple trick to get seven triad chords that work great together. First, you need to select a major or minor key.

You would be forgiven for thinking that if you described a chord as C minor 7 (Cm7), you could employ the same terminology, to describe its major counterpart. That would make an awful lot of sense ...

A dominant 7th is built on the dominant note. It functions as a type of chord V. In this example you will hear both chord I of C Major, and the dominant 7th chord. You can follow along with the ...

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.