Chords & Harmony · Music Theory
The major 7th
Take a major triad and stack one more major third on top. On C the chord is C–E–G–B, written Cmaj7. Where the dominant 7th (Handout 212) pulls hard toward the next chord, this one is happy to float right where it is.
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