16 Banjo Licks Using 7th Chords! // Bluegrass Banjo Lesson

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[@andrewgabel3856]

Hi Eli, I have been loving the videos. I have learned a lot of fiddle tunes using melodic technique and have neglected single string. So your videos for Blackberry Blossom and St. Ann's Reel were perfect for me. Thank you!

[@EliGilbertBanjo]

Nice, glad to hear it Andrew!

[@EliGilbertBanjo]

Congrats Andrew, you're the String Giveaway winner for this lesson! Get in touch with me via Email, Instagram, or Facebook and we'll get you some strings!

[@gbwooten]

Great lessons thanks

[@chrisbryant1657]

Thanks Eli! Great explanation.

[@EliGilbertBanjo]

Thanks!

[@stevepearson4160]

Thank you - some great licks there

[@EliGilbertBanjo]

Thanks!

[@dianaorr53]

Thanks, Eli. This all is beginning to come together and make sense.

[@EliGilbertBanjo]

Excellent!

[@seandowning480]

Loved figuring out your demonstration right around 3:00. The inside roll you play on the c chord really threw me for a loop. Thanks for these videos!!

[@n.craigbaird217]

Thank you for all the videos you put out!

[@EliGilbertBanjo]

Happy to help!

[@ajbacon8444]

Awesome video man! Love the integration of classic Scruggs licks like the Shucking the Corn lick in this lesson @ 7:30 ... I love using secondary dominants before chords too, always makes a good resolution happen no matter what chord you're going to next :)

[@joesmith8847]

Thanks for the lesson. Good stuff!

[@EliGilbertBanjo]

Thanks!

[@backcountrybluegrass4770]

i'm glad i found your page i've learned a lot of new things.. keep them coming.. thank you..

[@EliGilbertBanjo]

Will do!

[@tedburton8987]

Great explanation of the use of V7 chords! I used to have beginning jazz piano students focus on playing the 3rds and 7ths.

[@EliGilbertBanjo]

Thanks!

[@michaelwilson6911]

Great video

[@EliGilbertBanjo]

Thanks!

[@JakeSavich]

Cool Eli enjoyed your video

[@EliGilbertBanjo]

Thanks!

[@pegloughran3700]

Nice job explaining the dominant seventh chords hiding in plain view. I just didn’t know I already knew ‘em. :)

[@garykaufman8128]

Great video, Eli. I've been playing 7ths for years, and got started when I used to play Piano/organ. Those seemed to "usher in", or span the gap from one chord to another. And in some songs, I've heard guitar players end a song on a 7th...very clever!

[@EliGilbertBanjo]

Thanks Gary!

[@ryanmurfield2267]

This should keep me busy for another day of isolation, Thanks!

[@EliGilbertBanjo]

Glad to hear it!

[@aarongiddens8890]

Ready for some strings🙋‍♂️

[@EliGilbertBanjo]

Woo!

[@eightyoctane]

C’mon banjer strings! :-) Thanks for helping me understand what I’m trying to do!

[@DIYbanjo]

Would love to see a video on dom9 chords. I only really notice them on the IV or V chord going to I, or the I chord going to IV. And I never even try to use them, despite hearing them.

[@EliGilbertBanjo]

They function the same as a Dom7 chord, but with the addition of the 9 for extra color. It’ll probably end up in a video eventually!

[@matpotter1580]

Hi eli, i have only recently found you after watching the live feed with Jody and jim, I have to say it was awesome. I liked how you came across on the feed you look like you have a lot patience 👍 could you let me know when your pike county patreon slot comes available.I have literally been trying to play for the last few years and can't get anywhere with my banjo, no body is around me who can teach me for face to face, although I did have a lesson with Dan Walsh, if you have heard of him which was awesome but clawhammer and I was even worse at that lol

[@JonathanThrift]

Thanks for this video! I love your explanations. FYI, the tab at 6:10 is missing the third fret on the first string.

[@ajbacon8444]

What's the one at 7:36 from again...can't remember off hand haha

[@timothystone9379]

I hurt my wrist and now I can't really play right now, looking forward to trying these out when my fingers don't kill me for curling them,

[@EliGilbertBanjo]

Ouch! Get better soon!

[@ScottCooperStudio]

One of my favourites is the barred C at the 5th fret with the 7th added on the first string. Sort of a Scruggs classic. Eli, is that you playing the outro on all the videos?

[@EliGilbertBanjo]

Yes it is, an original tune called Knotty Pine, the full recording is also available on KZbin

[@ScottCooperStudio]

Eli Gilbert Banjo Tab on Patreon?

[@EliGilbertBanjo]

Not for that tune unfortunately, maybe at some point

[@tedtedsen269]

i like the barcords easy access to the 7 by having the pinky finger on 2freds up but i heard that only beginners play barcords

[@tablature6121]

The late, great Dave "Stringbean" Akeman used a variant of a dominant 7th chord as, what he called, his "Cadillac Chord" (so called because, as he told another picker, "...that's what paid for my Cadillac." LOL The man never drove a day in his life, though.). As near as I can make out, he chorded the dominant 7th for the I and the IV (or the flatted 3rd for the I...I think), and used it for effect only, not as any melody thing or passing chord. Here he is using it a couple times starting @ ~34 seconds in: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bqayqmaNmblmo7s Never tried working it into 3 finger, though, but may try, now.

[@EliGilbertBanjo]

That’s very interesting, thanks!

[@fullgopherman7066]

You should do a tutorial on king kong kitchie kitchie ki-me-o if you know it

[@Bascomblodge]

Eli, Not understanding your d7 chord at 1:56 of your video. You show playing it with a D, A, D, F# and i thought you needed to add a c in addition to the triad of A, D, & F#. thanks

[@EliGilbertBanjo]

The tab is missing, sorry about that, but watch my hands, I move from the 3rd fret on the second string, D, to the first fret, C

[@Bascomblodge]

@@EliGilbertBanjo Thanks!

[@mikew5423]

I want to be a winner like Frank

[@EliGilbertBanjo]

Don’t we all!

[@RenoScruggs]

7:41

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4:48

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5:00

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6:18

[@ermagerd101]

Thanks Eli! Awesome explanation.

[@EliGilbertBanjo]

Thanks!

[@RenoScruggs]

4:53