Beginner Guitar Chords – Learn How to Play the D7 Chord
December 11, 2009 by rserpe
Filed under Blues Guitar Lessons, Learn Acoustic Guitar Chords
The D7 Chord (also known as the Dominant D 7th Chord) is often referred to as a Blues chord. Once you learn to play it, you will understand why. It just has a real bluesy sound to it. It is definitely one of the easiest beginner chords to learn how to play.
There are several different ways to play it, but I will demonstrate the easiest way in the following post. The D7 Chord is found by first locating the 1(root note), 3 and 5 positions (D, F# and A) of the D Major Scale: D E F# G A B C# D, and then adding a flat 7 note. To locate the flat 7 note, we first find the 7th note of the D Major scale (C#) and then go back a 1/2 step to the C. So the notes of the D7 Chord are: A D A C F# .
Here is a key that will help you read the chart:

Chord Playing Tip: Be sure that you are pressing down on the string hard enough. You should play each string one at a time to make sure you have a nice clean sound. If any of the strings buzz or sound muted, then something is not right.
The video below will further demonstrate how to correctly play the D7 Chord. Enjoy!
Acoustic Blues Guitar Lessons
September 26, 2009 by rserpe
Filed under Acoustic Blues Guitar, Blues Guitar Lessons, Guitar Genres, Video Lessons By Genre
Beginner Acoustic Blues Rhythm Guitar Lesson
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Acoustic Blues Guitar Lesson -- Spice Up that Bluesy Playing
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Acoustic Rhythm Guitar Lesson -- How to Play the Blues ZZ Top
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In this guitar lesson we expand your chord catalog by teaching some open position 7th chords on the acoustic guitar and also some practice progressions using these new chords.
Learn Acoustic Blues Lead Guitar Licks and Solo Playing
In this lesson we teach how to embellish and play lead licks over an acoustic blues. LOts of fun and the licks can be played on acoustic or electric guitars.
Acoustic Blues Fingerstyle Guitar Lesson
In this video we teach some acoustic blues fingerpickingin the styles of Eric Clapton and Robert Johnson and many more.


