Beginner Guitar Chords – Learn How to Play the D7 Chord

rserpe — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:39:00 +0000

D7 Guitar Chord Lesson – Guitar Chord For Beginners

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 ways in the following post. See the chord charts below for more information on playing this chord.

The D7 Chord is found by first locating the 1, 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: D F# A C.

Here is a key that will help you read the chart:

Everything on the above chart should be self explanatory, except for the last three in the third column. They may need a bit of explaining. The O, or open symbol, simply means that you do not press down on any notes on that string. The X means you do not strum that particular string. The Barre symbol means you need to barre that particular fret. When you barre a fret you are pressing down on multiple strings at the same time with one finger.

This second D7 chord is technically a chord inversion because the D note is no longer the bass note or lowest pitch. The A note now becomes the bass note. It is still referred to as a D7 chord though. If you play it, you will notice it sounds just like the D7 chord above only it has a fuller sound because we are adding an additional A, or 5th position to this chord.

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.

D7 Guitar Chord Video

The video below will further demonstrate how to correctly play the D7 Chord. Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vDSA-YXA6Y

Acoustic Blues Guitar Lessons

rserpe — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 05:57:50 +0000

So you want to learn how to play the blues on your acoustic guitar? On this page you will find a collection of excellent acoustic blues guitar lessons that I gathered from YouTube from the folks over at Next Level Guitar. I can’t promise you will become the next B.B King or Stevie Ray Vaughn after watching these lessons, but you will certainly gain a lot of great insight into playing the blues. Enjoy and happy blues guitar playing!

Beginner Acoustic Blues Rhythm Guitar Lesson

In this beginner lesson we a fun and easy beginner blues rhythm. Play it on acoustic or electric – rock on!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeT5-OFCLhM

Acoustic Blues Guitar Lesson – Spice Up that Bluesy Playing

In this lesson we teach an acoustic blues lesson on how to spice up some blues progressions and move around the guitar neck. Works with electric guitars also

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmIeah8K1cE

Acoustic Rhythm Guitar Lesson – How to Play the Blues ZZ Top

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaUtaT27xKY

Beginner Acoustic Guitar - Learn 7th Chords

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.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i62ini29xSg

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.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBM9zIFgthw

Acoustic Blues Fingerstyle Guitar Lesson

In this video we teach some acoustic blues fingerpicking in the styles of Eric Clapton and Robert Johnson and many more.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8UvPrOzvig

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