Originally Posted By: eddie1261
Originally Posted By: Byron Dickens

You're both not quite correct. A major most certainly is in the key of D minor.


I think you maybe misinterpreted the term minor major 7th. Apparently because you saw the word major.

Please read +++THIS+++ and sit at your piano while you do.

A D minor major 7th has to do with one weird chord, not the context of the scale where some of the chords along the path from octave to octave are major chords. A D minor 7 remains a minor 7 even when the 7 is sharped, making it a minor chard with a maj 7th voicing.

I'd refer you to Dr John Venesile, one of music professors, had he not died in 2016 from pancreatic cancer. LOL!

Also check +++THIS+++ Wiki page that defines Aeolian mode as the natural minor scale.


I think there can be some confusion for some people related to the difference between a dominant seventh and a major seventh. They are both seventh chords but sound very different and resolve differently.

If someone "said" to me, play a Dmin7, I would play the dominant seventh. The seventh note is C. DminM7 is a more or less discordant chord using Db, which is the major seventh. I indicate Db and not C# because the key of D minor is a flat key.

One of the issues with not knowing much about theory is that you may go to a totally unexpected place. Theoricatilly competent musicians have a very good idea of what is coming next and if you deviate very far that becomes confusing.

Of Course, there are no "wrong" notes or chords, but most of us need to be pre-informed to follow you into an unexpected place.

The technical reason for DminM7 sounding discordant is you have this minor second involved.

Billy

Last edited by Planobilly; 06/24/23 06:27 AM.
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