Ear Training XII - 7th Chords in Closed, Drop 2, Drop 3, and Drop 2/4 Voicings

This is the last ear training exercise in a series of exercises on 7th chords. New this month is the presence of Drop 2/4 voicings. I am actually not sure if this exact terminology is used by other guitarists. By Drop 2/4 I mean a voicing which results from dropping the second and fourth note from the top of a closed voicing down one octave. For example, C-E-G-B becomes C-G-E-B. These voicings are quite spread out and possess the chordal seventh as their highest note. I especially like these voicings for minor 7th and major 7th chords as they expose the perfect 5ths that compose those chords.

You can see me play this exercise here and download the code for it here. To use the code, simply open the code in Supercollider, select the Language tab, and click ‘evaluate file’.