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seventh chord is a four-note chord created by adding a note a third above any of the four types of triads. There are three main ways to think of building seventh chords: 1. Adding a note a third above a major, minor, augmented or diminished triad. 2. Stacking intervals above a root. 3. Constructing seventh chords from the major scale. Each of these approaches will be examined separately. It is worthwhile to understand each of them. Luckily, each approach is closely related to the others, so it shouldn't be too hard to learn all of them.
Only four types of seventh chords occur naturally in the major scale: major, minor, dominant, and half-diminished. The other kinds of seventh chords are created from other scales and, with the exception of the fully-diminished seventh chord, are used less frequently.
Here is an example of how these symbols could be used to label the seventh chords in C major