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MASTER MINOR SEVENTHS

Minor 7th chords are among the most widely-employed harmonic structures in all contemporary music—but how many of us have truly taken the time to understand this staple vocabulary? After all, these structures appear in 90 percent of every composition we encounter. Let’s rectify this today with these exercises, which should point you in the direction of melodic salvation...

Minor 7th chords appear in 90 percent of every composition we encounter

Minor 7th arpeggios are constructed from a formula which consists of three stacked intervals of a third:

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