Question: Does anyone know what is the difference between minor four note chord and a minor-minor 7th chord.
Does anyone know what is the difference between minor four note chord and a minor-minor 7th chord.
I'm having trouble telling the differences lol.
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Is this a trick question? I don't like trick questions. There is a minor-major 7th chord, but never hoyd of a minor-minor 7th chord. Or do you mean a fully diminished chord, which I guess could be called a minor-minor chord since the 3rd and fifth are minor?
four note minor chord; Am : a c e a // root note doubled
four note minor 7th chord; Am7 : a c e g
The phrase "minor four note chord" is not one I've ever seen or heard used, so really it doesn't mean anything at all. You'd have to provide a context for understanding what you mean by it to answer.
A minor-minor 7th chord is an old-fashioned or unusually formal way of referring to what is normally today called just a minor seventh chord: from the root, a minor third, perfect fifth, and minor seventh. In the phrase "minor-minor", the first "minor" refers to the quality of the triad (1-b3-5), the second to the quality of the seventh (b7). But this chord is so much more common than the minor-major seventh (1-b3-5-7) that most people just shorten it to "minor seventh".
In reply to The phrase "minor four note… by Marc Sabatella
Marc, what would (1,b3,b5,b7) be called. That is not a minor-minor 7th? Your music theory knowledge is more than mine.
In reply to Marc, what would (1,b3,b5,b7… by odelphi231
This is called a "half-diminished seventh chord". 1-b-3-b5 is a diminished triad, then if you add b7 on top (a major third above the b5) it's called half-diminished, to distinguish it from the fully-diminished seventh chord you get if you add bb7 (a minor third above the b5, so it's minor thirds the whole way up).
In the world of jazz and pop, 1-b3-b5-b7 is also called "minor seventh flat five", because it's actually more similar in function to minor seventh chords (1-b3-5-b7) than to fully-diminished seventh chords (1-b3-b5-bb7). Both half-diminished and minor seventh tend to resolve down a fifth (as does the dominant seventh 1-3-5-b7 - anything with a b7, really), whereas fully diminished seventh chords more typically resolve by step.