Before We Begin... Any questions on the homework? (Please put the example number AND chord number.)

Sight-Singing ▪Packet #124, 125, 126, 127 (no repeats) ▪Remember, we are having a sight-singing TEST on Thursday and Friday – Tomorrow I’ll go over exactly which ones it could be on (there will be more to choose from than last time... To get it closer to “sight” singing)

Diatonic Seventh Chords In Major & Minor Keys

Introduction ▪Now that you’ve had plenty of practice with triads, let’s talk 7 th chords ▪Seventh chords can be built using any note of the scale, but some are much more common than others ▪These are also written using roman numerals

Diatonic Triads in Major ▪The triad type is indicated by the form of the roman numeral itself Seventh Chord TypeRoman numeralExample Major SeventhUppercase with M7IV M7 Major-Minor SeventhUppercase with a 7V7 Minor SeventhLowercase with a 7vi7 Half-DiminishedLowercase with a 7vii 7 Diminished SeventhLowercase with a 7III 7

Diatonic Triads in Major ▪Taking C Major as an example, we can discover the types of diatonic seventh chords that occur on each degree of the major scale I M7 ii7 iii7 IV M7 V7 vi7 vii 7

Diatonic Triads in Major ▪Memorizing this table will DEFINITELY come in handy! Seventh Chord TypeDiatonic Seventh Chords M7I M7 & IV M7 Mm7V7 m7Ii7, iii7, vi7 Half-Diminishedvii 7 Fully Diminishednone

Diatonic Triads in Minor ▪There are 7 triads (one for each scale degree) that appear more frequently than others though, and these are the only ones you’ll see in homework and exercises for now

Diatonic Triads in Minor ▪Notice that the roots of the most frequent seventh chords (above) all belong to the Harmonic Minor scale i7 ii 7 III M7 iv7 V7 VI M7 vii 7

Diatonic Triads in Minor ▪Memorizing this table will DEFINITELY come in handy! Triad TypeDiatonic Triads M7III M7, VI M7 Mm7V7 m7i7, iv7 Half-Diminishedii Fully-Diminishedvii