Let's learn Major 7th chords - Drop 2 Voicings

[@psneher]

Thanks!

[@TomoFujitaMusic]

You're very welcome! Thank you so much!

[@debbiealdred8282]

I love your lessons and I am seeing and learning how useful those chords are. It’s helping me learn the neck even more. I love your guitar too! You make it sing! Thank you Tomo Fujita!

[@TomoFujitaMusic]

So happy to hear that! Thank you so much!

[@Mayyde]

i wanna play guitar like you one day, these chords are so TASTY

[@TomoFujitaMusic]

Thank you!

[@psneher]

Your lessons are awesome and always right on

[@TomoFujitaMusic]

Glad you like them! Thank you so much!

[@TomoFujitaMusic]

I teach more detail lessons at my Guitar Wisdom!

[@aadijain1609]

Thank you so much Tomo! This will be VERY helpful!

[@TomoFujitaMusic]

Glad it was helpful! Thank you!

[@notanotherguitarchannel]

Knowing all of the drop 2 voicings is so useful for chord melodies. I wish I learned them sooner but I wasn't aware.

[@TomoFujitaMusic]

Good job! You can learn more!

[@Jackson1_416]

Always a good day when tomo posts

[@TomoFujitaMusic]

Thank you so much!

[@Yorubatroublemaker]

“You’re a smart guy… smart person…. Smart lady… smart cat… I have to say everybody 😅” what a time to be alive. PS I identify as a glazed peanut

[@TomoFujitaMusic]

Thank you for sharing!

[@FronzSchornack]

I love that song you were playing, Just The Two Of Us, by George Benson, great choice for drop 2 voicings. George Benson is one of the finest jazz solo guitarist that's ever lived, greatly over looked by has wonderful singing voice I.M.O. He builds on those drop two major7 chords you were playing, and then adds chromaticism with absolute mind boggling speed he's amazing and, he does it with just a clean jazz guitar and a Twin reverb, heck he could probably do it on that orangewood you were playing. Thanks again Tomo for sharing that with all of us.

[@TomoFujitaMusic]

Thanks for sharing! You're very welcome! Thank you!

[@ruechel]

'Just The Two Of Us' was originally written by Bill Withers, William Salter and Ralph McDonald and made popular by Grover Washington, Jr. Benson came later....

[@PaulPietrofeso]

Thanks for making my Wednesday morning interesting! The first song I heard while you we're playing the inversions was "Shinning Star", Jerry Garcia Band. Thank you for making the music fun! Peace

[@TomoFujitaMusic]

So happy to hear that.Now I am posting Monday, Wednesday, Friday & Saturday. Thanks for sharing! You're very welcome!

[@aminahmed2220]

Fantastic 😊

[@TomoFujitaMusic]

Thank you!

[@suzannecoholic1467]

thanks Tomo!

[@TomoFujitaMusic]

You're welcome!

[@RC32Smiths01]

I love 7th chords so much. Every voicing adds so much intrigue to a song's progression. Cheers.

[@TomoFujitaMusic]

Happy to hear that! Thank you!

[@RC32Smiths01]

@@TomoFujitaMusic Always man!

[@emlyngriffith5846]

Excellent lesson. I find myself confused between dropped 2 voicings and triads….they’re very similar. But now I’ll always remember a carrot as adding a 9th…..👍🍷

[@TomoFujitaMusic]

Thank you so much!

[@goodshipzion]

The Ava Mahogany is Orangewood's best guitar, in my opinion.

[@TomoFujitaMusic]

Yes! Definitely!

[@johnpereira2910]

From the way I understand it, the "2" can be dropped either from the top down or bottom up. Is that correct?

[@TomoFujitaMusic]

Thanks for sharing! Please watch this video 3 more times!

[@johnpereira2910]

@OfficialTomoFujiaMusic After taking your advice and watching again I realised i was confusing an inversion and drop 2. Thanks. Now I'm afraid to ask any questions because I'm afraid you might worry that you're not communicating properly 😀

[@katsunori.bb.kawai.6633]

Thank you Mr.Fujita. I can not use “Drop2 chords” good, I try to better.😅

[@TomoFujitaMusic]

You're welcome! You can! Take is slow!

[@PreposterousPodcast]

I wish I could be one of your students 😢you are so amazing, one day I hope to afford your lessons. Thank you for all your doing.

[@TomoFujitaMusic]

You can join my Guitar Wisdom with many thousands of happy subscribers! You're very welcome! Thank you!

[@minhtantran4111]

7th chord is the King :)))) (just for fun, all chords are nice)

[@TomoFujitaMusic]

Yes! Please enjoy!

[@BrandonOutside]

I’m pretty sure I use Drop 3 voicing a lot, if I’m using the right term 😆

[@TomoFujitaMusic]

Good job! Thank you for sharing!

[@olivier3847]

5:29 this chord instantly reminded me of the opening chords of this kzbin.info/www/bejne/j6arg36jndqKmJY

[@olivier3847]

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[@TomoFujitaMusic]

Thanks for sharing

[@__fernando.araujo__]

👏👏👏👏

[@TomoFujitaMusic]

Thank you!

[@-Dominique]

C/B Bm7(b5) C...

[@TomoFujitaMusic]

Thank you for sharing

[@DroolRockworm]

Why did we all collectively settle on 6 strings for a guitar and in the way it’s tuned?

[@TomoFujitaMusic]

Great question!

[@DroolRockworm]

@@TomoFujitaMusic Is there something inherently important about 6 voiced chords played rhythmically?

[@TomoFujitaMusic]

@@DroolRockworm There are choices and no absolute answers. Nice to have 6 strings and no need to use all.

[@x2mars]

🤔 that wasn’t very clear

[@TomoFujitaMusic]

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[@johnpereira2910]

A "drop voicing" is something designed to make inversions that are easy to play on a keyboard but impossible on a guitar more easy for guitar. The difference between an inversion and a drop voicing is that while an inversion has a strict order of notes. (1,3,5,7, 3,5,7,1, and so on), in a drop voicing you only have to play the bottom note (1,3,5 or 7) of the inversion correctly while the rest of the notes can be arranged in a practical way for fingering. Poorly thought out video which tells you "how" but not "what".