How to Play E7 Guitar Chords

Video Transcript

"Okay, now for our first seven chord. We'll do the E seven chord. This is one of those that's very easy to see, that's why we'll start off with it. remember your E major chord, form that first. Second fret of the A string with your second finger, third fret of the D string. And first fret of the G gives you the E major. Now in the E major, you have that E octave here. If you remove this octave you pick up your third finger, now you have the open D string. Now this has become a seventh chord because the seventh scale degree, which we'll get into when we do scales. D of the E major scale is now present in the chord. It's a new note added to the chord. So it's still major chord, but it's a seven chord. So we refer to it as E seven. Okay, this is also acts of the dominant chord. It's called the dominant. It wants to lead from the five here, as a five-seven to an A major. So you here it resolving. Try switching from E seven to A major. You really get the effect of the E seven chord. "