This chord occurs on different scale degrees in different diatonic scales: Example of tonic minor seventh chords include LaBelle's "Lady Marmalade", Roberta Flack's "Killing Me Softly with His Song", The Doobie Brothers' "Long Train Runnin'", Chic's "Le Freak", Lipps Inc.'s "Funkytown", and the Eagles' "One Of These Nights".
For example, the minor/major seventh chord built on C, commonly written as CmM7, has pitches C–E♭–G–B: Its harmonic function is similar to that of a "normal" minor seventh, as is the minor seven flat five or half-diminished chord – but in each case, the altered tone (seventh or fifth, respectively) creates a different feeling which is exploited in modulations and to use leading-tones.
[6] Rearranging and transposing, this gives A♭–C♭–E♭–F♯, a virtual minor version of the German augmented sixth chord.
[7] Again like the typical augmented sixth, this enharmonic interpretation gives on a resolution irregular for the minor seventh but normal for the augmented sixth chord, where the 2 voices at the enharmonic major second converge to unison or diverge to octave.
[8] The just minor seventh chord is tuned in the ratios 10:12:15:18.