Summary: Play major 7th chord on a jazz saxophone if you're an advanced jazz sax player; learn how with tips from our expert jazz sax player in this free sax video music lesson.
Proficient on multiple instruments, Mitch Kaplan has performed and taught music for two decades. He is also a published author of music education books and online articles. Mitch...read more
" For Expert Village this is Mitch Kaplan. In this clip we will be talking about major seven chords. This is built primarily of the root, the third, the fifth and the seventh of the scale degrees of a scale. We would look, here is your C major scale, so we have, again there is that major scale. What we are going to do is we are going to take the root, then skip one, there’s the third, the fifth and then the seventh scale degree and there is your major seven chord. "
eHow Article: How to Play Major 7th Chords for Jazz Saxophone