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Guitar Chord Theory made Easy Triads And 7th Chords

Hey there, if you wanna learn a little guitar theory in a fun and easy way, you’re in the right place. We’re gonna talk about chords and how they are constructed.

Hey there, for those of you who don’t know me, I’m Tomas Michaud founder of Real Guitar School. Today I’m gonna talk about guitar chords, how they are constructed. Now let me start off by telling you if you are a brand new beginner, this is not the best way to learn chords, really, the best way to start out is to learn some basic chord forms, get using on strums and then supplement that with some understanding of how chords are constructed. It will help you move farther but it’s not the best way to just start out so now were clear on that. I’m assuming you know some basic chords. Let me show you a little short video first that will show you how some basic major minor triads are constructed.

Here we have a basic G major triad. G is the root of the chord. The interval from G to E is called a major third so we called that a major third. I’ll use a capital M for a major third, a little m for minor third. Now the next interval that were interested in here is the root to the fifth. E is the third and G to D is an interval of a fifth. In this case, it’s called a perfect fifth so all major triads will start with a major third from the root and then from the root, a perfect fifth.

Now let’s go over to the next chord which is E minor. From the E to the G, it’s a minor third interval and we will use a small m. From the E to the B again from the root to the next note is another perfect 5th. All minor triads are three notes with the root note to the third being a minor third and the root note to the fifth being a perfect 5th. If you follow that formula you always end up with a minor triad.

Okay let’s take a look at what we just did. Now on the guitar, here’s a basic G chord. Now this chord has those three notes that we talked about in the chord but there’s some duplicate that’s why there’s more than three notes. So we start off with the G B and D those are the three notes. Then we go on to duplicate them. This is another G, another B and then another G, we got three G’s in there. You can almost never go wrong by duplicating the root note in this case G. So now the minor, E minor, E minor chord so let’s start off with the E then we have the B, another E, already we duplicate the E then it goes through the open G that’s the B again and again open E, duplicate notes really with three notes some of them duplicated just like we showed you in the video – E minor. Now let me show you another video, we’re gonna add 7th note to these chords. We’re gonna expand on it a little bit.

Now here we have a G7 chord. This is basically the same triad which has a perfect major third – a major third interval on the bottom – that must be a capital M and then that same perfect 5th interval but in addition it has a 7th interval, that F is the 7th from the root note and we will call that a minor 7. There is such thing as a major 7th also so for now our G7 has a major 7. Let’s go to the E minor and were gonna show you the same thing. It is still the minor triad, this is the minor third, that must be a small m and then the perfect 5th and again that same minor 7th interval from the E to the D and this is E minor 7 (Oh, where’s that minor) there it is.

Hey there welcome back. Okay I’m gonna show you in the guitar what we just learned. Starting with the G chord, I’m gonna start with that regular G triad. I still call it a triad even though we duplicated some of the notes. Now were gonna add an F note to this chord. To do that the most common way, is to put my first finger on the first fret of the first string, that’s an F note, now it’s a G7. There are many forms of G7 but this one is the most common.
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