-7 Chord-
-7 Chord-
***Songs that are explicitly written around the 7 chord are exceedingly rare. Because of that, many of these songs will be written around other chords but feature the 7 chord at some point.***
Sway
- Michael Buble -
Key of F
Main chords:
7 - 5of6 - 7 - 5of6
6 - 6 - 6 - 6
The arrangement plays a natural 6th over that 6 chord once in a while, giving you that min6 sound. Common in jazz/latin jazz, etc.
You could also look at this from the "key of Dm" (where the 6 chord is now 1), a good example of a "minor 2-5-1":
2 - 5 - 2 - 5
1 - 1 - 1 - 1
Second progression (0:45)
5 - 5 - 5 - 5
1 - 1 - 1 - 1
5of6 - 5of6 - 4(dom) - 5of6
That dominant 4 chord is simply up a half step from the 5of6 (which is a spicy dominant 3 chord). Pretty common in this world and all the way back to classical music, an example of "tritone substitution"
Great Fairy's Fountain
- Koji Kondo -
Key of F
Intro is a big 5 chord, C7, however the chords start playing the 7 chord in each inversion (Em7b5). This is because the 7 chord (Em7b5) is a pretend chord for the 5 chord (C7). When you play the 7 chord on top of the 5 chord, it sounds like a dominant 9 version of th 5 chord (so C9)
Progression after that is:
4 - 1(3Bass) - 2 - 1
2 chord (Gm6) could also feel like a 5 chord (C7) as the way the melody is playing implies that.
Second rep:
4 - (5of2) - 2 - 5
The 5of2 would be D7, and it is being played as spicy, so you'll hear b6 and b2 in the melody (b5 as well).
Army of Me
- Bjork -
Tonal center is C, and it sort of shifts between C being a 7 chord and C being a 3 chord.
Verse:
Bassline is b7-1-b7-b6-b5-b7-1-1-
Melody is 1-b7-b2 - - b2 - b3 - b2 - b2 - 1
Feels more like a 3 chord, but the bass is playing b5.
Chorus:
Melody is standard minor, but bass plays b2 making this moment sound like C is a 3 chord.
Bjork is legendary