How to Play 7th Chords on Guitar

What's so dominant about the dominant 7 chord, you ask? Allow me to explain. A flat 7 means you take the seventh note in the major scale and scoot it down by one. When you add that flat 7 to any major chord, you get a dominant 7, or seventh chord.

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[@seandaniel23]

:) agreed.

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Pewdiepie giving guitar lessons?? Yes, pls!!!

[@seandaniel23]

Haha, thanks :)

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Thanks Pewds, very nice 🍷

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6:02 “that’s what she said”

[@soundguitar]

Great explanation and great teaching. Thanks, Sean.

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Honestly he looks more like Star-Lord to me

[@lucasbretels]

The most important notes are here the f and the b note, because of the tritone distance, giving the essential tension in the DOM 7 chords

[@seandaniel23]

Right on!

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Sean,you really DO know your thing.Nice explanation of an important dominant 7 chord.USEFUL

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This is great. Really helped shaped things together.

[@seandaniel23]

+Tanks Frags So happy to hear it! Thanks for reaching out!

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Love his shadow vowels

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That's good, cause there are a lot of them.

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Thanks so much for video ! Greetings from Brazil !

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Why would people give a thumbs down? Dummies...... thumbs up bud great explanation

[@meGAdeth0220]

Turning the II chord into a dominant 7 sounds good too. The flat 7 note on the II chord is the same as the root note.

[@seandaniel23]

Great tip!

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Thanks for the lesson

[@seandaniel23]

Always happy to help!

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Thank you man you're a star.

[@seandaniel23]

Thanks so much!

[@filmbuffturk]

This was so helpful again man any chance you could do one for minor 7ths? Or maybe even a video on harmonizing the major scale with 7th chords?

[@seandaniel23]

+Conor Spierin Yeah definitely, I for sure will have a minor 7 one up here in the next week or so, and I'll start thinking something up for the whole scale, too. Thanks for watching.

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Thank you for your content. Liked, commented, subbed now. You are the man

[@abramhernandez1216]

Thanks Sean!

[@seandaniel23]

Happy to help Abram!

[@dandinkler6315]

We're "implying" the D.

[@seandaniel23]

As it so often is.

[@CaptainP00face]

Wouldn't it be easier to play the minor natural scale to find the 7th note within a scale? It means you don't have to scoot the 7th note down a half step when you're in the major scale.

[@femininemogul]

This video is a bit advanced for me can u recommend a beginner one of your videos so I can understand theory

[@SpooningTreesap86]

Maybe I'm missing something, hopefully somebody can explain but right here: 10:53 he says "it's an E7" but wouldn't this be a flat 7? looks like he is playing the B on the A string and the G# on the G and everything else open. But that D string is open not D# (the 7th) so he has E,B,D,G#,B,E wouldn't a 7th be moving that D up a half step?

[@andrewbenavidez1454]

Any tips on barre chords for dominant 7 chords? I feel like I have a good grasp on major and minor barre chords but when it comes to E and A string dom 7 barre chords, I can’t get all the notes to sound out properly. 😒

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Try watching this one to help: kzbin.info/www/bejne/o6nJeGOom9VmndE

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Well, that rocked

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really helpful!

[@seandaniel23]

Thanks for watching!

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Pretty Woman by Roy Orbison is based on this mode

[@seandaniel23]

Classic song!

[@James-nv1wf]

A bit confused. I am just learning but have my minor pentatonic scales down and want to add some 7 chords. Am7 for instance...looks like it takes off the root A leaving the open G. So down the neck I just sub a G for an A. ACE becomes GCE?

[@seandaniel23]

Yup, then you have a C major chord (any combo of C E and G)

[@greablood1072]

Oh! I get it. Thanks!

[@seandaniel23]

Glad to hear it!

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hilarious intro, thank you..

[@seandaniel23]

Thank you for the support :)

[@marcotp9]

thanks for this , just an advice for the future, maybe go a bit slower when you show the chords inversions so that we can follow along

[@DJMerck]

Where can you find videos that teach you where your fingers go instead of trying to build up a 9/16 7 mm 4 1/2 divided by 7 to the frequency of the third trimester?

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Hello farzana

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Does the implied 1 or 5 notes only work when the remaining notes have a 1 or 5 on the lowest string of the remaining notes? I have tried simply removing the 1 and 5 from other forms than the ones that you demonstrated and those seem to be the ones that work.

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I'm pretty sure the way it works is that some giant business just throws tons of cash around and BOOM! Prescription drugs :)

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You speak my language

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Hat is good. Lesson is better.

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:)

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nice vid man.. !

[@seandaniel23]

Thanks Hitesh!

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Anyone else notice the occasional "eh" conjunction from time to time?

[@seandaniel23]

Always.

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R there dominor 4;5:6;8;and so on???

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No idea

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Do you have a video about diminished and augmented chords???

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i will practice 7TH

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Good man!

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Been playing guitar for years but I still find this hard to understand

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Why not pressing 4 notes then

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Finger skippy dippin on me man! lol

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:)

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I 'C' what u did there with the cap

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3:57 I swear I heard a voice say "is it"

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The ghost of music theory!

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gratch gratch every word ends in a "uh"

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I’m confused how do I start on music theory?

[@seandaniel23]

It all start with chord building. Try watching some vids on that.

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:)

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Can you suggest a video, so that I can understand this one 😂😂

[@seandaniel23]

Which questions do you have?

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pewdiepie???

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My side gig.

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Lame. Could you talk any faster?

[@seandaniel23]

You can always slow it down!