Between The Licks

Know thy fretboard: shapes and inversions of the seventh chord.

Seventh chords are arguably the most popular chord right after the plain vanilla Major and Minor. The seventh chord is notated by the number 7 directly after the root note of the chord. For example, an A7 is an A seventh chord. What we will learn today should not be confused with maj7 chords, because they each refer to a different 7th tonality in the scale. The plain seventh chord has a dominant 7th, or flat 7th. A major seventh chord has a regular 7th from the major scale.

If this seems confusing, just know that A7  is not equal to Amaj7 and that will suffice for now.

The simple sevenths.

For simplicity's sake, I am just going to list about 6 or 7 different ways to play each chord. I hope you will notice that a lot of the shapes are simply re-used in a different spot on the guitar. Transposing is a real gem for guitar.

The possible inversions are nearly limitless if you get down to switching notes one by one, so here are the basic shapes I've found to be useful.

Well, that was pretty short, I highly recommend watching the video to get the full effect on how to chord these. 

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