Spice Up Your Chords: Unlocking Richer Sounds with 7ths!

The different boxes of the 7th arpeggio.

Learn how to play most commonly used 7th chords (Dominant 7 chords) such as A7, E7, D7 and others.

This is the place for all you beginning guitarists to get started on your journey to great guitar playing. Today we are going to learn a few open 7th chords in the key of A major.

The 7th chord is basically like a normal chord (root, third, fifth), but with the 7th note added. They are mainly used in jazz, but other musical genres can also get a nice flavor adding them in song progressions here and there.

This lesson covers Drops 2 & Drops 3 voicings for the C7 chords

This is the fourth and last lesson of the series that show how many different scales can we play over a dominant chord.

We go through 4 chord inversion on 4 adjacent treble strings, 4 adjacent middle strings and 4 adjacent bass strings. These inversion are all the dominant voicings that you`ll be needing in order to make some great funk riffs or vamps.

The Bebop Dominant Scale is basically a Mixolydian mode with an extra note : a natural 7th. Used in Jazz of course, but also in Jazz Fusion, to add interesting colors to your improvisations.