Seventh Chords

 Types of Chords

When ending a music it is called conclusive, but when it does not end it is called inconclusive.  When writing music you must determine wether the music is ending or not 

There are predominant chords, subdominant, and dominant chords. In the scale degree the 2 is considered a predominant chord becasue it comes before the 5th which is the dominant chord. The 4th in the scale is called a sub dominant because it comes just before the dominant and the 6th can be called a tonic because it has 2 notes similar to the tonic. 

The diffrent types of chords and where they are located in the scale. 

This is a next example of what happens in major and minor keys when playing chords. 

In major keys start on the tonic and go to teh predominant whihc can be either 2 or 4 and move to the dominant 5 or 5/ 7 then back to the tonic. 

In minor keys start on tonic but the predominant is a minor 2nd or minor 4th then to a dominant 5 to teh tonic

This video talks about the subdominant chords that is before the dominant chord. Soemtimes teh 4th chord can progress to the 5th or the 1 chord.  Moving to a 4th chord to the tonic is called a plagal cadence in music also known as amen chord. In jazz they use the chord 2 5/7 and 1.

In this video the main chord is the 5 chord. The 7th is usually called the leading tone because it leads to the tone which is one. The 7th is also called a dominant 7th chord.