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- Cm3EbM3Gm3Bb
C Minor 7, written Cm7, is built from C, Eb, G and Bb: the root, minor 3rd, 5th and minor 7th.
Its 3rd and 7th, Eb and Bb, are its guide tones: they say what kind of chord it is, so voicings are built around them and the root is often left to the bass.
In the progressions here, Cm7 is the ii7 of the Major ii-V Progression in Bb, the iv7 of the Backdoor ii-V-I Progression in G, the vi7 of the Deceptive Cadence in Eb, the iii7 of the Major iii-VI-ii-V Progression in Ab, the i7 of the Minor i-vi-ii-V Progression in C and the v7 of the Whole-Step ii-V Chain in F.