{"id":116,"date":"2018-10-23T08:10:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T15:10:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-01-09T14:14:39","modified_gmt":"2023-01-09T22:14:39","slug":"minor-7-flat-5-chord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/minor-7-flat-5-chord\/","title":{"rendered":"The Minor 7 Flat 5 Piano Chord"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">In this chord feature, we will be looking at <strong>the minor 7 flat&nbsp;5 chord<\/strong>. If you want a minor 7th chord with a bluesy feel,&nbsp;this is the chord for you!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To begin, all we need&nbsp;<\/span>is a C minor chord. We can build this chord by using a C-Eb-G. Now, we need to make this chord a 7th by adding in the 7th note of the C Minor scale which is Bb. Now we have C-Eb-G and Bb. Sounds good already doesn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let\u2019s see what happens if we flatten the 5th by a half step. This means we will take the 5th note of the C minor scale which is G and move it down a half step to Gb giving us C-Eb-Gb-Bb. This is the minor 7 flat five. Tada!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Fun fact:<\/strong> This chord can also be called a half diminished chord because you will notice that our first intervals from C-Eb are a minor third and Eb-Gb is a minor third. This mini stack of minor 3rds is what gives it that diminished feeling.&nbsp;<em>&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What we end up with is a chord that has a really nice bluesy vibe. This is because of the flattened 5 which is a part of the blues scale or pentatonic scale. Who knew that one little change could have such a great impact?<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Enjoy!<\/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>Hard to say. But fun to play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":737,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[507],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116","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\/116","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\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10350,"href":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions\/10350"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}