Best Guitar Chord Ever: The Major 7

the major 7 chord much like in Irishman's Redbeard universally accepted as the highest standard of beauty today we're going to learn a bunch of different voicings of major seven chords on guitar and I thought we'd start with the key of G is there going to be moveable shapes G's a good one because it's the easiest major seven chords you can play you just put your index finger on the second fret the high E string in the Bible or now what is a major 7th chord a major 7th chord is when you take the first third fifth and seventh notes of the major scale of any key so for example G what you're doing today it's going to be a gene a b c d e f sharp g 7 notes g a b c d e f sharp so we need the G the B the D and the F sharp any combination of those four notes will give us a major seven chord so like I said the easiest one is this right here here's the D G B and F sharp so it doesn't matter what order the right now they're all going to combine to make the same kind of something now so which is just the bottom four strings if we want to root the G which would be here the third fret of the e-string this is a really good voicing so it's kind of like the back end of this is like an a minor shape right here with a root note on the third fret of the e-string so I have three for D I'm skipping the a string three for d 4g and 3b and altogether another voicing and again these are just movable shape so this is G major 7 this is G sharp major 7 D major 7 so on and so forth ok now the next one we're gonna stay in the same area this is like a really cool shape it's easy to remember because it's like a staircase I'm starting with my pinky on 5d then just adding a finger down to string back a fret every time okay so it's another one moving down the neck sitting with a really good one in the gel G major 7 so this is kind of like a bar chord but it's easier because I'm using the bottom part of the strings so I'm borrowing the 7th fret bottom three strings and with my index finger I'm hitting the 5th fret on the D string so okay you can pick these out here all right so we got a few of them moving further down the neck if we want to get another one like a lower one with more of the e string we can start on the D here and it starts with like an E major shape but all the way down here and then as your pinkie two more to go this is another really good if you're gonna root the chord on the a string the G on the a string is the tenth fret so it's gonna be like a power chord so 10 a 12 D middle finger on 11g then your pinky on 12 B now I can bar this get another D in here if I want to but I don't have to I really just need the middle four and then this one you can make it fuller by adding that kind of a nominal difference the last one is really technically not a different voicing it's the same voicing that we started with but an octave higher so you bar the twelfth fret and add the active of the second fret we started with which is an F sharp so okay so to recap we have seven different kind of shapes voicings here shape number one easy shape number two rooted on the E string shape number three is the staircase one shape number four is kind of like that double bar chord one shape number five is one looks like an E major with your pinkie here number six is the tenth fret power chord coming back and seven is the first one gamba octave higher now another thing that you can experiment with major chords is adding the seventh in the major scale two in our Pesce or a line or something like that so all we're doing with that is taking the major scale use for any key one three five seven G B D F sharp then you're gonna have the active G again we can do it across two octaves one three five seven into that voicing that we did the third voicing we did and then add the octave to kind of close it that's kind of a cool kind of sprawling our PES you lick if you want like major seven chords

Channel: Sean Daniel

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Length: 5min 13sec (313 seconds)

Published: Sat Jun 27 2015