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Which scales on a major seventh chord?
The major seventh chord (major third and seventh) sounds stable and bright. You hear it on the I and IV degrees. The scales below keep its clear color.
Cmaj7 = C · E · G · B
guide tones (3rd & 7th) avoid
The core scale
major (Ionian) — reference major color
RC 9D 3E 11F 5G 13A 7B
The stable, bright major mode, with its major third and major seventh anchoring the tonal center. The eleventh rubs against the third, making it a clear, consonant color with little tension, one you return to as a home base.
8 more colors on a Cmaj7
Beyond the safe scale, the major seventh chord takes 8 more, from the gentlest to the most tense (Aebersold order):
- major pentatonic
- Lydian
- bebop major
- harmonic major (Ionian ♭6)
- Lydian augmented (Lydian ♯5)
- augmented (symmetric)
- Lydian ♯2
- minor blues
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