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Summary: A professional music instructor explains how to play minor 7th chords on the saxophone, and how minor 7th chords are different from major 7th chords, in this free music lesson on video.

Views: 459 | Tags: bass, scales, chords, brass, saxophone, alto, tenor, modes, diminished, augmented, seventh

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Miyanna Nielsen Mariane “Miyanna” Nielsen has been teaching and playing the saxophone professionally for over twenty years. Her skills and experience include jazz, meringue,... read more

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How to Play Minor 7th Chords on the Saxophone

MIYANNA NIELSEN: When we had the last series, we talked a little bit about how to play every 7th chord within every key, all 12 keys. Today, we're going to focus mainly on the minor 7th chord itself. When we play through the major 7th chords, we found that the 3rd and the 7th were directly akin to what occurs in the major scale. Here, the 3rd and 7th respectively are lowered one half step. So that instead of having a major sound like this, you're going to have a minor sound like this. So once again, a major sound and the minor.

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