Learn About the Dominant 7th Chord Root Position

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"MIKE LAIS: Hi, I'm Mike Lais. And on behalf of Expert Village, this is playing piano 7th chords. So the dominant chord, this is one of my favorites. It consists of both major and minor qualities. It's going to be a 1, a major 3rd, a 5 and a flat 7. You're going to use this chord, really, to turn around your chord progressions. But let's give you an example of it. We're going to take the C chord, and we're just going to have a flat 7th and a major 3rd. So we're going to be C; major 3rd, which is E; the 5, which is G; and the flat 7 being B flat. All right? Just like that. That's going to be in our root position. And you're going to want to use this as like--if it's like let's say, the 5 of your progression. So if we were in the key of F, all right? Because I'm going to play a 1 here. If I were to be on the C, I'll play a dominant chord, that right there. It just sounds like it wants to go back to the 1, which should be an F in this case. But for now, we're just going to talk about the voicing, which is going to be 1, 3, 5, flat 7. And that is a dominant root position 7th chord."