MOMENTI DI PANICO – L’accordo di settima maggiore – maj7. (In English below)

L’accordo settima maggiore- Maj7 è un suono abbastanza stabile che comunica spesso un momento di arrivo o di risoluzione, piuttosto di avere un “tiro” verso un’altra armonia.
Quindi si trovo frequentemente come accordo finale di una sequenza e noi ci possiamo trovare con il compito di mettere un “fill” o piccola cadenza sopra.
In ogni caso ricordiamoci che la fondamentale verrà suonato dal basso e la nota che più definisce l’accordo , la settima maggiore, sarà probabilmente più in alto, forse anche in cima al voicing. Se noi solisti con uno strumento acuto e leggero come il flauto raddoppiamo la fondamentale l’effetto può essere debole e anche poco gradevole, quindi ci serva una soluzione che ci dia materiale motivico che sta bene con l’accordo senza utilizzare la nota fondamentale, che fatalmente sarà la prima nota che leggiamo quando suoniamo dallo spartito.

Conosci le pentatoniche?
Quelle maggiori?
Quelle minori?
SE NO, LE DEVI IMPARARE!

Quando vedi un accordo Maj7 usa la pentatonica maggiore che parte dalla quinta dell’accordo, o (stesse note) la pentatonica minore che parte dalla terza dell’accordo.

Es. Cmaj7 – usa la pentatonica di Sol maggiore (SOL è la quinta dell’accordo Cmaj7) o la pentatonica di MI minore (Mi è la terza dell’accordo Cmaj7)

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PANIC MOMENTS – The Major Seventh Chord

The major seventh chord is a fairly stable sound, that often communicates arrival/resolution rather than having a “pull” towards another harmony.
So it is quite often the final chord in a sequence, and we can find ourselves with the job of perhaps adding a flourish or fill over it.
In any case the tricky thing about this chord is that the bass will play the root note and what defines the chord (the major seventh) will be higher up in the voicing, often right at the top.
If we, as a soloist playing a light, treble clef instrument like the flute, double the root note, the effect is limp, even unpleasant, so we need a solution that will give us motivic material that fits within the chord, without using that root note, which is fatally, the first note you read when playing through the music.

Do you know your pentatonics ?
Major pentatonics ?
Minor pentatonics ?
IF YOU DON’T, YOU SHOULD.

When you see a maj7 chord use the major pentatonic that starts out from the fifth of that chord.
Or (same notes), use the minor pentatonic that starts out from the third of the chord.

e.g. Cmaj7 – use a G major pentatonic (G is the fifth of the Cmaj7 chord)
or E minor pentatonic (E is the third of the C maj7 chord)

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