Lesson 9 covers the open 7th chords (dominant 7) – part of a complete video beginners guitar course that has all notes available for free from www.justinguitar.com. Just click on the Beginners tab on the left and learn guitar in progressive easy steps. Taught by Justin Sandercoe.
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theres not supposed to be. they’re called “7th chords”. …jesus.
“Maj7″ chords don’t work as dominant chords because the do not contain a tritone interval. Therefore the name “dominant major seventh” is misleading, IMHO.
In the harmonized scale maj7-chords are represented on the tonic and subdominant, as you probably know.
i really hope that was a joke
he says u play the 7 note of the major scale. but the note hes hiting is inbetween 6 and7 could someone explain the reasoning for this?
my bad he says flatned, but then why? 6th is on the 6th note, 7 should b on 7 no?
A Dominant 7 chord is when you take the 7th of a chord and flatten it.
Here is the C major scale: C – D – E – F – G – A – B (B is the 7th of the C major scale)
Here is a Cmaj7 chord: C – E – G – B
To make it a dominant 7th flatten the B: C – E – G – Bb (that’s why the note he is hitting is between the 6 and 7)
Here are other examples:
D7 = D – F# – A – C
E7 = E – G# – B – D
G7 = G – B – D – F
A7 = A – C# – E – G
hope that helps. let me know if you have any other questions =D
Haha 7 chords. thats funny. My friend learning guitar thought you use a 1st and 5th “power cord” to plug in your amp haha. Every time I said “power chord” he got this funny look on his face
thank you for explaning how to get the dominant 7th, been tryin to figure this out for awhile…
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thanks for the lesson but im still a little confused, in the C7 chord it does not contain the 5th step (g note) that an original c chord contains(CEG), but other chords in 7 DO contain the 5th step, so can a 5th step be optional or something? also i found that if you were to open the 2nd string in an original c chord
E e
(x32000)
it would play all steps, 1-3-5-7b(C E G A#)
could it be played this way?
the way you said it made it more understandable, and i sort of get an understanding to it. thanks
get a life u moron
cool!thanks!@_@
ummm..i understand a bit…but can you explain me about scales?thank you@_@
c7 is incorrect i think
i thing u r the one who don’t know c7
F7?
fuck u man
what guitar is he playing?
This finger patern (X32000) would give a Major 7th chord (C E G [B] E) because it contains a regular 7th, not a flat 7th.
As a matter of fact, the very distinctive sound of the dominant 7th chord is created by the major 3rd interval from the root (C) to the 3rd (E) and the tritone from the 3rd (E) to the 7th(A#)
So since a dominant 7th chord is still called dominant 7th without the 5th, I guess you could call it ”optional” ^^
Huh
The tritone would be from the 3rd to the FLAT 7th(A#)
Thanks, that really helped. Very clear and informative, thanks again.
Great lesson. Very instructional.
thanks!
I find Justin very funny