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Vertical Truth: Chordal Mechanisms for the Guitar

Unit 4: 7th Chords

7th Chords occur in all styles of music. All forms of Pop, Rock, Blues, Country, Jazz, R&B - any style you want to play, knowledge of 7th chords is necessary. The more you know about 7th chords, the better off you'll be!

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The content in this lesson series contains:

 

  • 5 types of 7th chords: Major, Dominant, Minor, Half-Diminished & Full-Diminished

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  • 3 common diatonic chord progressions based on Scale Tone 7ths (see the last video below)

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  • Dominant and Minor Suspensions

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  • Major and Minor 6th Chords including their inversions

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  • All positions - that's 3 different positions on the neck for all the above - in every key

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This lesson series on 7th Chords consists of a PDF that contains:

 

  • 29 pages

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  • 11 lessons

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  • 93 fretboard diagrams

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  • 17 music notation examples

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  • 20 demonstration video links with 100's of embedded dynamic fretboard diagrams.

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Here's what the PDF looks like:

Here's some more information including a clip from the first video (out of 20) wherein you will learn what the differences are between 5 different types of 7th chords, and the 3 positions in which they can be played, resulting in 15 different chord shapes:

Ok...15 chord shapes. So how are they used?

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Good question...

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Songs (or parts of songs) that use some of the 7th chords I gave you in the previous video:

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  • Long Train Runnin' - the Doobie Brothers

  • Ooh Baby Baby - Smokey Robinson & the Miracles

  • Summer Romance (Anti-Gravity Love Song) - Incubus

  • Waiting on the World to Change - John Mayer

  • Sitting, Waiting, Wishing - Jack Johnson

  • Something in the Way She Moves - The Beatles

  • Michelle - The Beatles

  • Misty - Jazz Standard

  • Autumn Leaves - Jazz Standard

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See how 7th chords are used in the above songs:

In the first video above you learned 5 types of 7th chords in 3 positions. In this video we're going to put those 7th chords into scales. 

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The following video, "Scale Tone 7ths" is the actual video for Lesson 2 of this lesson series.

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It presupposes you can already play a major scale. Nevertheless, it does demonstrate three different one-octave major scale patterns that are used for this exercise/concept:

Prerequisites:

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If you were taking one-on-one lessons from me and we covered the material in this lesson series it would cost you around $250.00 – assuming 3 months to get through the material; most people take longer.

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