We've seen how to create a dominant
7th chord by moving a single note of a diminished 7th chord. What happens if you
move two chord tones down by a half-step? How about moving three notes? It turns
out that these moves generate major 6th chords, respectively (a). The conventional
voicing applications for such chords are over minor 7th or major & flat 5
chords (b). But armed with the knowledge that every note moved in a diminished
chord is a root of a related dominant, you can apply major 6th and minor 6th voicings
to their related dominant 7th chords, too. In (c) I apply major 6th chords to
a C7 that are from the related dominant roots of A, G flat, E flat, and C.
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