As bass players we naturally have to know our chords, and ideally a fair bit about harmony and chord progressions in general, ...

All the chords built on other notes in the scale of C are minor, except chord VII - the notes B – D – F, which is diminished. When a seventh is added to a chord this is known as a seventh chord.

Harmonic minor keys are ... of the degrees of the scale. In the jazz styles of Gershwin and Kern, the dominant seventh was often substituted with an augmented chord.This gave the tonic-dominant ...