Different ways to play a dominant 7th

bill ( bill@mugwump.taiga.com )
Tue, 22 Oct 1996 02:27:31 -0400 (EDT)

Two ways for a G7 are:

G (octave down) F A B E

and

G (octave down) B E F A

According to John Mehegan, we can thank Chopin for the first form and
Ravel for the second, although Fletcher Henderson and Duke Ellington first
used them in jazz as "the accepted sound for sax backgrounds".

William Norris
bill@mugwump.taiga.com