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E7 Piano Chord

A tense chord that "wants" to resolve up a fourth. Essential for blues, jazz, rock'n'roll and funk. The added minor seventh creates characteristic tension.

Piano

Recommended voicing
E4 · Ab4 · B4 · D5

How to play the E7 chord on piano

Play the recommended root-position voicing with the right hand: E4, Ab4, B4 and D5. Suggested fingering is 1–2–3–5 (1 is the thumb).

Notation for E7 chord

Other names: E dominant 7th, E dom7, E 7

Music theory name: dominant seventh chord

Common name: E seven chord

Intervals and tones in E7 chord

Note Interval
E Root
Ab Major 3rd
H Perfect 5th
D Minor 7th

Inversions

1st inversion
Ab4 · B4 · D5 · E5
2nd inversion
B4 · D5 · E5 · Ab5

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The same chord type in other keys

Songs using E7

Slavíci z Madridu
Waldemar Matuška
Kometa
Jaromír Nohavica
Slunečný hrob
Blue Effect
Růže z papíru
Nedvědi
Buchet je spousta
Hana Plšková
Lásko
Karel Kryl
Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Israel Kamakawiwo'ole
Skládanka
Nedvědi
House of the Rising Sun
The Animals
Růže z Texasu
Waldemar Matuška
Jednou mi fotr povídá
Ivan Hlas
Johanka
Brontosauři