The Scale-Tone 7th Chords - PRACTICE #1

I've created this post in response to Rob's question regarding practicing the Scale-Tone 7th Chords around the cycle of 5ths remaining within the key you begin.. If you do not know what the cycle of 5ths is, I suggest you read the post 'Cycle of 5ths - Introduction and Theory'.

First: Take a quick look at the Scale-Tone 7th Chords post on this subject.







Ok, as we know, the cycle of 5ths, if we start on 'C' will be...
C--F--Bb--Eb--Ab--Db/C#--Gb/F#--B--E--A--D and --G.

So, if we started playing the Scale-Tone 7ths Chord From C,

we can see that if we follow the traditional cycle of 5ths pattern we run into a little trouble trying to stay in the key of 'C'. What follows the IV chord in the chart below is a Bb chord which steps out of the key of 'C'. Now this is ok if you wanted to practice your major 7ths around the complete cycle covering all (12) tones of the keyboard because as you can see it continues to Eb, Ab, etc.







In order to stay in the key of 'C' we need to make a small adjustment to the cycle. Let's change the Bb above to the VIII (Bm7b5) of 'C'. Then we will continue going through the cycle until we get back to the (I) chord. So the Bm7b5 is not a true 5th interval after the Fma7, but this adjustment is acceptable for the purpose of practicing the Cycle of 5ths within a key signature.








So the Cycle of 5ths pattern from with a key signature is this:
I---------IV-------VIII------- III----- VI----- II-------V,------and back to I
Cma7--Fma7---Bm7b5---Em7---Am7---Dm7---G7-------------------Cma7

Practice your Scale-Tone 7ths in a cycle of 5ths pattern starting with different keys. Here they are in 'F' and in 'G'.