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To make these chords sound richer, you can add another note which is the 7th interval up from the root. With the root, 3rd, 5th and 7th all combined, 7th chords are created.

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If it’s a minor-7th on a Major triad (creating a dominant-7th chord), it generally wants to resolve its innate tension. Again, see Figure 1 above.

This would make a major 7th chord. For a regular 7th chord, we need root, 3rd, 5th and b7 – but to say 'a flat 7' would be too easy to confuse with the chord A b7, a completely different thing.

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