Intermediate Theory Lesson – Seventh Chords For Minor Keys

In Music Theory | on January, 19, 2010 | by Carl Brown | 2 Comments

In this lesson we will continue our study of chord progressions by learning the Seventh Chords that work within a Minor Key.

Just like in the minor key studies using basic triads we will have 3 scale types to choose our chords from.

If you haven’t checked out all the other chord progression studies here on the site, from basic chord progression theory, Seventh Chords in major keys, or even your basic understanding of keys, you should do a search on those topics here on the site now so you can catch up. Otherwise it will seem like this lesson is just leaving out a bunch about how this stuff is all created, but that was covered in earlier lessons.

Part two of this lesson series will once again be a video lesson showing how to apply some minor key chord progressions to the guitar using Seventh Chords.

As in the other chord progression videos, the chord forms that I will be using will just be from the CAGED Sequence studies that we have already done with Seventh Chords here on the site. Once again, if you don’t know them just do a search on Seventh Chords.

Here is the tutorial PDF for this lesson.

Seventh Chords In Minor Keys PDF

This will be the last of the chord progression theory lessons for a while, so we can take a look at some more playing techniques.