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The leading tone seventh chord: here is the chord that allows your music to have a magical atmosphere

How to use the leading tone seventh chord

Among the seventh chords, the leading tone seventh chord is maybe the most fascinating.
It is in fact a chord with a very particular atmosphere and difficult to define just as it is usually difficult to define music.

Today we will get to know in-depth the leading seventh chord in order for you to use it correctly in your composition.
Here are some of the things you will learn in this lesson:

How to resolve the leading seventh chord

How to get the most out of inversions

Should we use the passing seventh?

The direct and indirect resolution

Before introducing the leading seventh chord, we will conclude dominant seventh by looking at when it is best to use it and in which musical situation it gives the best results.

Learning material of this lesson

5 videos	31 mins
1. When to use dominant seventh chord and why it has a strong tension	4m 45s
2. Seventh chords on the seventh degree	4m 13s
3. The leading tone seventh chord and how to play it at the piano	4m 41s
4. Resolutions of leading tone seventh chord	7m 51s
5. Inversions of leading tone seventh chord	10m 04s

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The dominant seventh chord: here is everything to know (part 2)

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Inversions of dominant seventh chord

What are the possibilities with the new seventh chords which we have built on a major and minor scale?
Today we will try to answer this question.

For example by using inversions of seventh chords we will introduce some new tools.
Remember the case of triads: the possibility to change the note in the bass offered very important harmonic resources.

In the lesson today we will try to understand how the inversions work in the case of dominant seventh chord and which are the best ways to resolve them.

We will also see how to apply non-harmonic tones which we studied during the composition course.

As you can see we are advancing in the study of harmony and new horizons are opening up before us.

Let’s start exploring!

Learning material of this lesson

6 videos	31 mins
1. The dominant seventh in harmonic minor scale	8m 12s
2. The inversions in dominant seventh	4m 13s
3. How to call inversions in dominant seventh	4m 19s
4. The resolution of inversions in dominant seventh	6m 30s
5. How to resolve inversions in harmonic minor scale and some practical examples	3m 00s
6. The passing seventh	7m 02s

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Do you want to learn how to build the harmonic structure of a musical piece?

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Building the harmonic structure of a piece

I would like to present a new cycle of composition lessons which will soon start. Thanks to these lessons, you will finally learn to build the harmonic structure of a piece.

You will be able to put into practice all the notions of harmony and chords which you have learned so far and introduce your music!

Thanks to the help of more than 70 musical examples, you will be able to build a harmonic structure of any piece you want to write, either a song, piano piece, or even something more complexed.

These are some of the many topics which we will see in the lessons:

A simple and logical method to build chord progressions
Understand which is the role of each chord inside the key
How to build harmonic progressionsusing the major scale and principal minor scales
Which are the main features of the chords to vary in order to obtain balance and variety
How and when to use inversions of chords in an effective way
Introduction of new chords thanks to the use of altered degrees
How to mix in an effective way chords of different minor scale
We learn some general methods to build a harmonic structure in a piece
How to differentiate harmony when the music piece is divided into different parts
All the notions that you learn are essential in learning to harmonize a melody.

As you can see there is a multitude of material . This will be seen in a clear and simple way , with the help of more than 70 musical examples.

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Harmony: the 3 main benefits of using chord inversions

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The three main benefits of using inversions

In the last lesson we spoke about chord inversions and looked at how to build them and what exactly is their importance. Today we will go one step further.

We will see in depth which are the 3 main benefits of using them and we will do this with some practical examples.
We will see how the introduction of this important tool, will allow us to improve significantly the progressions of chords we are using in our composing.

Moreover in the last video I wanted to explain to you in depth which are the principal notation systems of inversions, both in the study of classical harmony and in pop music.

Learning material of this lesson

7 videos	52 mins
Intro	1m 39
1. The sonor features of inversions	10m 35s
2. The first benefit of using inversions	8m 06s
3. The second benefit	5m 20s
4. The third benefit	11m 46s
5. The names of the inversions and how they are represented grafically 1	5m 58s
6. The names of the inversions and how they are represented grafically 2	9m 38s