Inversions are essential for jazz players, virtuoso cats such as Martin Tyler, but they are super-useful for any player ...

All the chords built on other notes in the scale of C are minor, except chord VII - the notes B – D – F, which is diminished. When a seventh is added to a chord this is known as a seventh chord.

Harmonic minor keys are used when writing ... In the jazz styles of Gershwin and Kern, the dominant seventh was often substituted with an augmented chord.This gave the tonic-dominant a new and ...