Load it up! Neil once told Q Magazine: "if you want to write a classic pop song, use these chords: Ab, Bb, G minor 7th, C minor. That’s ‘The Chord Change’. You can’t go wrong with that.

Inversions are essential for jazz players, virtuoso cats such as Martin Tyler, but they are super-useful for any player ...

The term ‘minor’ refers to the b3rd. This is a C minor chord with a dominant or b7th. If we were to raise the 7th, we would have a C minor chord with a major 7th. Now check Example 5!

Harmonic minor keys are used when writing ... In the jazz styles of Gershwin and Kern, the dominant seventh was often substituted with an augmented chord.This gave the tonic-dominant a new and ...