I've got a question, I thought perhaps one of you fine human
beings could help me out. I am under the impression that you can
find the relative minor key of a major key by counting down 3
steps, alternately, you can find the relative Major by counting
up 3 steps from the minor. That minor should have the same
amount of sharps and flats as it's relative Major. Correct so
far? So, I'm doing an exercise that requires me to identify the
diatonic 7th chord for a particular scale degree of a particular
minor key. The question is in the form of; B Minor, VII7 = _ _ _
_ _ . So for that instance, I got A7. I worked that out by first
identifying the relative major of B, which is D, which I know
has 2 sharps, F and C. Then I wrote out the B Minor scale and
knew that A was the 7th degree, and that the 7th degree of a
minor diatonic progression would make it a Dominant 7th, thus
A7. Now, when I go to the next example; F Minor, v7 = _ _ _ _, I
try to repeat the same process but it doesn't work. A 3rd up
from F is A, A Majo