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Intervals · m7 ·
Minor seventh
A minor seventh is ten semitones, the distance from C up to B♭. It is the distance from sol up to fa, the bottom and top of a dominant seventh chord.
Listen: C4 and B♭4
Quiz
Wormy plays one of these, up or down, from a different note each time. Can you tell which: major sixth, minor seventh, major seventh?
What it sounds like
Ten keys apart, bluesy and unfinished. It hangs in the air waiting to land.
In music theory
Stack sol, ti, re and fa and you have a dominant seventh chord, with a minor seventh from bottom to top. Blues and jazz lean on it constantly. Upside down, it becomes a major second.
Where you've heard it
No well-known tune from before 1931 opens on this leap, and Wormy only names songs that are free for everyone. The best reference is the scale itself: sing sol up to fa.
Every tune named here is public domain in the US or traditional. Wormy names the spot; it never plays the song.