Hi guys this is how to play your B7 chord
this can be used as a slightly easier alternative to a standard B major chord
because the only you can play a B major is with a Barre Chord in standard tuning
which can be quite scary and
which can be quite scary and hard to do for beginners
this B7 can be used in replacement of that
but also B7 tends to crop up in alot of songs
from blues, to more folky style songs
and this is also crucial finger training
in preperation for learning
a big bad F barre chord
which is this bad boy
that can be a very tough
one of the toughest beginner chords to play
because once you can do the F barre chord, kind of all the other barre chords open up to you
but that first one
an F tends to be used with open chords as well
so we are having to use all the standard open chords that we have covered already in this course
but then change your shape totally for example from a C
to flattening off your first finger
so if we can play this B7 chord
and have a couple of songs
that you can use to excersize it with common chord changes
then you are superbly placed to be able to breeze through
your F barre chord which can be really tricky
and we are gonna look at some different options we have with it
with out futher or do lets get straight in for a close up
here is your B7 chord
its easiest to get to this B7from a chord you already know
so maybe your E major
play your Emajor, we are going to move this first finger up one string
so its on the 4th string, still first fret
third finger down one string
and this tends to be a 7 shape that is repeated an awful lot
on guitar
and then we just need your little finger on the second fret of the E string
and this is our B7 chord, remembering that
all these fingers should be over your side
of the fret not over at this side
and not squished up like this
or to flat other wise
it just aint gonna ring out whatever you do you need
to be right on the tips of your fingers
like this
the most common change
that uses a B7
would be an E major
where we have a middle finger
that doesn't move, this middle finger for e major
and B7
doesn't move at all
so thats a really great excersise just drilling
one chord then the other
trying desperately
not to get that middle finger to move
tryna get all your tips of your fingers with out any of them going flat
like this or maybe your third finger flat like this
if you use the Noel Gallagher method of a G or C
then this should be a bit more familiar to you keeping your
on your tips of your fingers
but thats the easy change that gets
used in a 12 bar blues
in E
and an awful lot of pop songs basically
you can use this B7 any time you dont want to do
this horrible nasty B major chord
where we have to Barre with the first finger
where we do like this
i've personally never gone with this way at all
I always do a barre chord like this
the other most common change that uses this B7
is from a G
so I would definitely advise
G
to a B7
doing it with the Noel chord or a big G
already using all four fingers
that little finger can stay down but in essence we are gonna have to
lift up all your fingers a little bit
and play your B7 like this
you can bring this thumb over the top if you want with this B7
though thats not essential
you can bring your middle finger up just a little so that it mutes
this thickest E string here
so that ones not heard
we can strum all the strings
and it still sounds cool
or just try not to play
your thickest E string if you do
its probably not gonna sound great so
so try find a way of muting it or
strum it normally
and try not to play it
so yes G to a B7
is very tough but I kinda nickname this the buskers change
when I hear songs that do this sort of thing
its kinda your typical singer songwriter chords happens in alot of Oasis songs
Stand by me
Stand by Me, we'll be having a go at that in a later video
Siting on the Dock of a Bay
is kind of a standard one I use at this stage
so 'sitting in the morning sun'
'i'll be sitting when the evening comes'
so check out that video if you can do this change
can sound really sophisticated compared to you know, G D C
after a while
alot of songs sound really similar, it is well used
it lacks something a little bit different so this B7
shakes it up a little, gives some real sophistication
it sounds really cool, the 7th part of it
comes from this third finger here, you dont have to
you dont have to know what a 7th chord is yet but
I will tell you that it sounds jazzy or bluesy
if you see a chord that has a 7 in it it should sound
bluesy, i'm going to be a video later on what 7th chords are about
so thats how to play your B7 chord
please check out the other songs on my website or in this playlist
that use this B7 change
and hopefully that will be a big help for when you come to play an F barre chord
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