Once you've got simple major and minor chords under your fingers, 7th barre chords are the next stage to make your playing sound more professional. Stuart Ryan shows you the relevance of the major 7, minor 7 and dominant 7 chords.
00:00Hi, I'm Stuart Ryan. In this video I'm going to explain the three primary seventh chords,
00:05what they are and how you can use them. Perhaps the best way to think of these chords is as more
00:09colorful versions of simple major and minor chords. To build seventh chords you take the notes of a
00:15triad, the root third and fifth, and then add a major or minor seventh onto the triad. Part of the
00:20character of seventh chords comes from where you place the seventh in the chord itself. Let's start
00:25off with three common C major seven shapes.
00:55Next, here are three minor seven chord shapes.
01:25And now here are three dominant seventh chord shapes again played in C.
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02:05I'm going to play the C major scale harmonized as seventh chords now. So you're going
02:11to hear major, minor, dominant and minor seven flat five chords here. Knowing how to play a scale
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02:39let's turn it into music. Here's a one four five chord progression in C.
02:57using seventh chords. So that's going to be C major seven, F major seven and G dominant seven. I'm going to play a soul inspired rhythm to bring the part to life.
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03:47dominant seven chords are really at home in styles like blues and funk. So here's a one four five blues rhythm part in C.
04:01So that's going to be C, F and G with each chord played as a dominant seventh.
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05:25next we'll explore the sound of minor seventh chords with a 70s disco style rhythm part.
05:29This is another one four five in C, but it's all minor. So we'll play C minor seven to F minor seven and then G minor seven.
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06:07you'll hear seventh chords in all styles of music, but especially
06:25in soul. I'm going to play a 70s soul inspired track now using chords drawn from the C major scale we studied to begin with. When you've learned my part, try creating your own rhythm part with my backing track and the chords we studied.
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08:25thanks for watching and don't forget to hit like and subscribe to Guitar World. Take care and I'll see you again soon.
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