The Chord Cookbook Compendium © 2008 Matthieu Brandt

Dom 7 Extended Chords

Definition : A Dominant Seventh Chord with one or more notes added from the parent
scale. The Parent scale is the Ionian Major scale in which the dominant
seventh chord is the 5th degree.
Notes from this scale are added on top of the Dom 7th chord.
Chord Formula : 1-3-5-b7-9 (Dom 9th), 1-3-5-b7-13 (Dom 13th), 1-3-5-b7-11 (Dom 11th )
Styles of Music : Blues, Jazz, Pop, Folk, Rock, Singer Songwriter, etc.
Examples : Almost all 12-bar blues progressions (Chicago style Texas and West Coast)
When to use : Chord creates some tension that wants to resolve, due to the tritone interval
between the major third of the chord and the flatted seventh.
This is an unstable interval. In blues this a dominant seventh chord can
be played for a longer period of time without resolving.
Also used to make a chord or chord progression more bluesy.

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