Best Guitar Chord Ever The Major 7 Video Lecture - The Ultimate Guitar

the major 7 chord much like in
Irishman's Redbeard universally accepted
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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