How to Play an A7 Blues Guitar Chord

Video Transcript

"RICK TOBEY: I'm Rick Tobey and in this series, we will be learning how to play blues progressions and a blues song on behalf of Expert Village. Now, another very easy chord to play and a very important chord to play, especially in blues, is the A chord. And the reason is that the open strings E and A and E again on the top are all in the chord and if you're going to play an A7, then the open G is also in the chord. So, you can play an A7 which is these two fingers, the second finger on the D string, second fret and the third finger on the B string on the second fret and that would be an A7. Another way to play the A7 is you can take your first finger and put it on the G string on the second fret and then put you little finger on the G note which should be the third fret of the high E string. Of course, this way, it's a lot easier. Another way to play the A string--the A chord is to use just one finger and press down on all these strings but then if you're just going to play a regular A chord, try not to hit the high E string or use your third finger on the third fret of the E string and you get an A7 chord. So, this is the A chord, the A7 or just the A and the A7 again."