{"id":839,"date":"2017-01-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-03T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gospel.hearandplay.com\/main\/?p=839"},"modified":"2017-01-03T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-01-03T08:00:00","slug":"chord-analysis-breakdown-the-major-seventh-sharp-five-chord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gospelhap.wpenginepowered.com\/chord-analysis-breakdown-the-major-seventh-sharp-five-chord\/","title":{"rendered":"Chord Analysis\/Breakdown: The Major Seventh Sharp Five Chord (Maj7#5)"},"content":{"rendered":"

In this lesson, we’ll be breaking down the major seventh sharp five chord.<\/p>\n

The major seventh sharp five is also known as the augmented major seventh chord and is an important seventh chord that every serious gospel musician must have in his or her chordal vocabulary.<\/p>\n

The major seventh sharp five chord (aka – “augmented major seventh chord”) can be understood if we breakdown the individual words that make up a chord which are: major, seventh, and sharp five.<\/p>\n

So, let’s get started by breaking down the term major.<\/p>\n

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The Term “Major” Defined<\/h2>\n

Major is one of the attributes or character of a key or key environment that is used to qualify a key environment. There are basically two key types: the major key type, and the minor key type.<\/p>\n

So, the term major <\/em>and minor <\/em>are used to define the attributes or character of a key. While the major key is said to have attributes like day, happiness, light, and so on, the minor key is attributed with darkness, sadness, the nightly, the ghostly, and the fearful. That’s pretty much contrasting to what we have in the major key.<\/p>\n

The term major<\/em> is used to describe any musical element (be it a scale, interval, chord, chord progression, or song) that is related to the major key, or has its attribute.<\/p>\n

The Term “Seventh” Defined<\/h2>\n

The term seventh<\/em> is basically an ordinal number. Ordinal numbers are used in music to quantify chords, and intervals, and this is basically the quantity of an interval or a chord is derive from the number of notes – scale notes, that it encompasses.<\/p>\n

In this case, the term seventh <\/em>is used to describe a chord that encompasses seven degrees of the scale. So, a basic seventh chord in the key of C major:
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\n…should encompass the first seven tones of the C natural major scale which spans from C to B:
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The Term “Sharp Five” Explained<\/h2>\n

Sharp five is basically an intervallic<\/em> name that is used to describe a pitch that is a half step higher than the fifth degree of the major or minor scale.<\/p>\n

For example, in the key of C major:
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\n…where the fifth tone is G:
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\nThe sharp five, is basically the pitch that is a half step higher than the fifth tone of the scale, and that’s G#:
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\nSo, the sharp five in the case of the C major scale:
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\n…is G#:
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\nUse of terms like sharp five<\/em> and flat five<\/em> in music is basically to indicate the chromatic variant of the basic scale tones in any key. For example, sharp five indicates that the fifth degree is raised, while flat five indicates that the fifth degree is lowered.<\/p>\n

So, the introduction of the sharp five indicates that a diatonic tone has been modified, and through the modification, there is a chromatic variant of the regular fifth degree.<\/p>\n

So, for the fifth degree of the key which is G:
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\n…we are modifying it chromatically, by raising it by a half step to G#:
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\n…and G#:
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\n…is a chromatic variant of G natural:
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\n…in the key of C:
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\nThe final term in the major seventh sharp five chord is chord<\/em>. So, let’s briefly talk about chords.<\/p>\n

A Short Note On The Term “Chord”<\/h2>\n

According to Jermaine Griggs, “…a chord is basically collection of remedios naturales contra impotencia<\/a> three or more related notes<\/strong> (agreeable or not) that may be played or heard together.”<\/i><\/p>\n

From the definition of a chord, one keyword that we’ll expand on is related notes<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Any collection of three or more notes can be considered as a chord if there is a relationship between them, and there are two relationship types that can exist between chord tones:<\/p>\n