Try to also refer to them as 'first degree, 2nd, 3rd.' etc. When a II - V progression consists of a minor 7th flat 5 chord and an altered dominant. The dominant b5 chord is an extremely important sound in jazz music due to its dissonant and unresolved sound. It is built with a root (1), a major third (3), a diminished fifth ( b 5) and a minor seventh ( b 7). Try to put all of them together in this key (C major) to hear how they work together. the G scale fingering to be played from the note C in position 7. B minor 7th chords The Solutionbelow shows the B minor scale 7th chords, (i7, iiø7, III7, iv7, v7, VI7, VII7) on a piano, with mp3 and midi audio. The dominant seventh flat five chord (7 b 5) is a dominant seventh chord with a fifth lowered by a semitone. To help you put this into practice, in the fretboard diagrams is a common way to play all 7 chords on the guitar.

Guitar chords chart for B-flat minor 7th flat 5 chord with suggested finger positions on the guitar fretboard is shown below. Once we have been through the process we are left with another formula to remember, which is as follows: B-flat minor 7th flat 5 guitar chord is also written as Bmin7 (5) or Bm75 or Bm7 (5). The F# is clearly not in the C major scale and therefore cannot be used. On the other hand, D7 wouldn't work here because it has D, F#, A & C. 1st Flat on ' B ' 2nd Flat on ' E ' 9 ( 1b ) key of F MAJOR D minor 3rd Flat 4th Flat on ' A ' ' on 5th Flat on ' G ' 6th Flat on ' C ' 7th Flat on. So, for example, when looking at D (The second degree of the scale) we know that a Dm fits in (using the notes D, F & G) and now we can use Dm7 as well because that has D, F, G & C in it, which are all notes from the C major scale. The process is the same, you create the chord using just the notes in the C major scale. Just as we did when we harmonised the key of C major to triads, we can now dot the same with 7th chords.

B minor 7 flat 5