Gospel Music for Keyboard: Blues Chord Tensions & the Dominant 7th Chord | Piano | Berklee Online

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In this video from Berklee Online’s Gospel Music for Keyboard course, instructor Mark Copeland discusses the music theory behind the blues present in gospel music. He explores the dominant 7th chord (degrees 1, 3, 5, and b7) and demonstrates its available tensions—9, b9, #9, #11, 13, and b13—by playing variations of C7 to highlight how these tensions alter the chord's sound.
Copeland—who wrote this course with Dennis Montgomery—demonstrates how tensions can be added by playing different variations of C7 on the keyboard and using several tension combinations that cause the chord to sound slightly different. Copeland also explains the role of tritones (an augmented 4th above the root) and challenges you to do an exercise involving the major pentatonic scale, another important scale in gospel music that commonly tags along with the gospel bass line.

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ABOUT MARK COPELAND:
Mark Copeland is a pianist, organist, keyboardist, music producer, composer, arranger, songwriter, and educator. Versatile in all forms of contemporary music, he is a graduate of the Baltimore School for the Arts and a graduate of Berklee College of Music, where he is currently a professor in the Ensemble department. Mark has played for and shared the stage with numerous artists, such as Yolanda Adams, Brian McKnight, Jeffrey Osborne, Kenny Lattimore, Michelle Brooks-Thompson, Walter Beasley, Gerald Albright, Kirk Whalum, and Elan Trotman, and more.

ABOUT DENNIS MONTGOMERY:
By the time Dennis Montgomery III was nine, he was playing B3 organ in Baptist churches in his hometown of Shreveport, Louisiana. He began his time at Berklee as a student in 1983, and is currently a full professor as well as the director of Berklee’s Reverence Gospel Choir, which has included students from Japan, Greece, Israel, Lebanon, Taiwan, Australia, Canada, and a number of European and Scandinavian nations among its members. Having worked with the choir for more than three decades, Montgomery has directed such students as Paula Cole, Lalah Hathaway, and Susan Tedeschi.

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