I mean it’s totally balanced, that minor 9th. That’s a minor third, a major third, minor third, major third. I think even very, very beautiful because it’s so well balanced too. It sounds like that and that’s a beautiful chord. I need two hands to play because my hands are smaller. Later we’re going to take up the minor 7th with the 9th. In other words, it’s well balanced and I think that’s why it’s so beautiful. So it’s minor third, major third, minor third. Then for the next interval, is a major third and then the next interval is a minor third. Okay? Minor third, in other words, not a major third there but a lower third, a step and a half. And notice it’s a stack of minor third, major third, minor third. The interval here is called a minor 7th, but the chord is also minor so that name kind of has a double entendre, okay? Which is fine. That’s why it’s called … well, it’s not why it’s called a minor 7th but it is called a minor 7th. To make it minor, I simply lower the third a half step and then to add a 7th, I don’t use the seventh note of the scale, I use the lowered 7th. So a major chord is the root, third and fifth of that scale. Following our rule of whole step, whole step, half step, whole step, whole step, whole step, half step. If we’re playing it in the key of C then we’re basing our playing on the scale of C which is eight notes that runs from C to C. So let’s take it from the beginning here. This is Duane and today I’d like to take up one of the most beautiful of all chords, the chord that’s really a workhorse chord because it’s used so much in music, because it’s such a mellow chord, and that’s the minor 7th chord. One Of the Most Beautiful of Chords – the minor 7th chord
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