Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Shortcut to Learning Guitar Chords Part-9

CONCEPT 10: MAJOR 7th CHORDS

To get Major 7th or M7 Chord, move the Middle Finger down 1-step.

Let's dive in quickly. Deriving AM7 from A:

Final AM7 :

Take a look at he A-chord again...

AM7 looks like this (note: the fingers are rearranged like in Am) :


Deriving EM7 from E...
EM7 is:


In actual: E-chord (you should know it now!) and EM7 are:

E:

EM7:


Note that M7 and 7 cannot be combined because they use the same finger movement just that the extent of movements are different.

To recap: M7 and 7 use middle finger. M7 move middle finger down 1-step. 7 move middle finger down 2-steps.

Try these: A#M7, GM7