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- It's Mia Garcia here,
and today we're gonna be talking about
something you might've heard of before,
something you might've even tried yourself.
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Maybe without even knowing it.
We're gonna talk about major seven and minor seven chords.
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So one of those were major sevens, I'm just kidding
they were only just sevens, that's not true either.
(laughing)
You're gonna wanna know how these are built.
So what really makes a major seven happen?
We have the root, the third, the fifth and the major seven.
So that brings us here. (soft guitar playing)
Which this isn't necessarily the most conventional voicing
for major seven on guitar,
because, you know, it's kinda spread out,
it's not as easy to get to maybe slightly unstable at times,
but here we have root, third
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But we're gonna go over the more popular version
of this chord on guitar, and that would be this voicing.
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Regular major seven.
So we have root, third,
seven, third and the fifth.
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It's nice, isn't that nice?
So we're gonna go over a couple other ways
to play this chord.
If you're playing it from the low E string
you can play it in this voicing.
Palm, index finger, root, seven.
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This is another great voicing foot.
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And another voicing it'd be something like this.
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So an example of some major seven voicings playing
can be like, something like this I don't know.
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Oh, now here's the minor seven.
We haven't gotten there yet, but here we go.
So the minus seven much like the major seven chord
(laughing)
is a seven chord and it is similar
instead of the seven and the third both go down.
So rather than something like,
the root, the third, fifth and seventh.
We're gonna take the third and bring it down half a step.
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half at first minor interval.
So then once we have that first minor interval,
we're gonna add the first minor interval.
Then we're gonna to add the fifth.
So that's kind of a, already a stretch.
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Okay, what is it?
Okay that is fun. (laughing)
So we got the root, the minor
the fifth and the seventh.
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Kinda lay it out like that.
See, lot's of other unconventional voicing for guitar
as well, because it's kinda hard to get to
you know, you saw me, it was tricky.
So a more popular version would be
the root, the fifth, seven, third and fifth.
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Another cool voicing for the minor seven
from the low E string for A minor would just be to bar
straight across the strings and skip the second string.
So you have.
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You can also play it with individual fingers.
You could just play it with these two, maybe add one.
Who knows it's all the same.
So that's the fundamentals of major and minor seven chords.
A couple of examples.
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Have a great day, good luck practicing.
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