Dominant Seventh: Bass Chord Arpeggios

Video Transcript

"OK, continuing with our discussion of seven chord arpeggios we just learned the C major 7. Let's look at that again. It was C, E, G, and then we had B as the seventh scale degree. OK? Now, that's a regular major seven chord. Now, a dominant seven, which would be written with a C and a 7 following it, no major, no triangle which signifies major, just a C and a 7. That's a dominant seventh chord. That means our seven scale degree is lowered. We have a flat seventh. So now it's C, E, G, B flat, G, E, C. That's the movable pattern. One, for D, DD, F sharp, G, A sorry, C, A, F sharp, D. And these only really outline five seven chords which want to lead back to one. From there, the next string above it in the same fret will be the one chord that we want to go to. So, if you do a G7, G, B, D, F, D, B, G. That wants to lead to a C major. We can do a C major 7. So really try making a G dominant 7 arpeggio, go to a C major 7, note the difference in the scale degree, seven and flat."