{"id":113,"date":"2018-10-16T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-16T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-01-09T14:13:48","modified_gmt":"2023-01-09T22:13:48","slug":"the-mega-7th-piano-chord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/the-mega-7th-piano-chord\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mega 7th Chord"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Want to learn how to play a fun and funky 7th chord? You need the MEGA 7th.&nbsp;<\/span>This chord is based on a <strong>C7<\/strong> which is a pretty cool chord. Let\u2019s look at how to build a C7 first, and then we will make the necessary modifications to make it MEGA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To play a C7 we use the notes <strong>C-E-G<\/strong> which are a normal C triad and then add a flat 7 on the top which is <strong>Bb<\/strong>. So our chord ends up being <strong>C-E-G-Bb<\/strong>. Sounds good BUT, we can make it MEGA with some simple modifications.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Begin by playing the root note which is <strong>C<\/strong> in your left hand. We will continue the chord in our right hand by playing the 3rd which is <strong>E<\/strong>. So far we have C in our left and E in our right. This creates a major 3rd. Now, let\u2019s add in the flat 7 in our right hand. This gives us C (left) E and <strong>Bb<\/strong>. Sounding pretty great now but we aren\u2019t quite finished. The wild card here is a sharped 9th! To find this, count up 9 from your root note and sharpen it! This gives us a <strong>D#<\/strong>. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-large-font-size\"><strong>The Mega 7th:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-text-color\" style=\"color:#f61a30;font-size:24px\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Left Hand: C<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-text-color\" style=\"color:#f61a30;font-size:24px\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Right Hand: E-Bb-D#<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There you have it. The perfect chord for all your funky jams.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jordan<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<iframe class=\"email-form-include-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/weekly-email\" frameborder=\"none\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bring some funk to the party with this mega chord voicing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[507],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chord-theory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10349,"href":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions\/10349"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}