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.

Major 7th voicings and the Major scale at the same time.

The major 7th arpeggio is composed by 4 notes: The root/fundamental, major third, fifth and major seventh.

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

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

Let's continue from the previous C Extensions family, but this time we are playing the same chords up the neck using barre chords. They are played here using what's known as a 'ripple' technique.

How to play four pentatonics over a maj7 chord. The progression we have is traditional in jazz: the II-V-I.

Learn one of my songs played on 7 string guitar.

The different positions of C and G major, and a new way of learning the chords!