Re: [LAU] Difference F7 and Fmaj

Dave Phillips wrote:
> rosea grammostola wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 12:39 AM, Steve Fosdick
>> <lists@email-addr-hidden <mailto:lists@email-addr-hidden>> wrote:
>>
>>
>> The numbers refer not to the actual note played but to it's place in
>> the scale. What the person replying was saying was that 7 chord is
>> played by using the 1st, 3rd, 5th and 7th elements of the scale with
>> the 7th one flattenned a semitone. The maj7 chord is the same but the
>> 7th note is not flattenned.
>>
>> Now you asked specifically about F7 and Fmaj7 so in this case the
>> scale
>> to which those numbers refer is the one that starts on 'F' so the
>> notes
>> you would actually play would be F A C Eb for F7 and F A C E for
>> Fmaj7.
>> Using the numbers you could work out what E7 or Emaj7 would be or
>> indeed for any root note.
>>
>> But there is no Fmaj6? If I got you right F6 is F A C and bD
>> (flanttened a semitone)... but that seems not the case for F6,
>> keychor.com <http://keychor.com> says F6 = F A C D!... how come??
> Fmaj7 is the diatonic I7 chord in the key of F (F A C E).
>
> F7 is the diatonic V7 chord in the key of Bb (F A C Eb).
>
> F6 (F A C D) is an added-note chord, it's the I chord in the key of F,
> and it can be used as a direct substitution for Fmaj7. Note that it is
> also an inversion of the Dm7 chord, the diatonic 7th chord on the 6th
> degree of the F major scale.

Yup. The only difference between a C2 chord and a C9 chord is the
interval between the C and the D ... which is what makes it sound
different! And an E2 chord can also be a B4 chord ...

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David
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