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Music the show notes. Now, on to today's episode. All right, my friends, what's up? Brent here from Learn Jazz Standards. Welcome to another episode of the Learn Jazz Standards podcast. I'm always excited to be here answering your jazz and music related questions five days a week to help you have more fun than ever playing your instrument, playing music, playing jazz, and help the whole thing feel a little less overwhelming.

Today we got a really great question coming in here today from Timothy Colell. Let's

give it a listen. What are the notes of an altered dominant seventh chord?

All right, boom, short and to the point. Love the question. There's actually a lot more I want to talk about

in regards to alter dominant seventh chords because alter dominant seventh chords actually play

a really big role in jazz and the way that actual pro jazz musicians improvise. So yeah,

we're going to talk about what the notes are in a

alter dominant seventh chord, but I also just want to talk about how they're actually used

because it's really that important. So first of all, let's understand what is a dominant

seventh chord, right? Again, if this is brand new to you, that's great. If this is like completely like you've known this for decades,

that's okay too.

A little bit of review to kind of build the narrative here.

Okay, how do you build one?

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