How to Play an E7 to A7 Guitar Chord Transition

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. So now, we're going to learn how to go from the E7 chord which we learned, which is this chord, the A7 chord. So, if you're going to play the E7 chord with the second finger on the second fret, the A string, and the first finger on the first fret of the G string, then it's very easy to go to the A where you would simply lift your second finger off of the A string, second fret, and put it on the second fret of the D string and you would then take your third finger and put it on the second fret of the B string and lift up your index finger. And then to go back, you would simply reverse it. You would take your index finger and put it on the first fret of the G string. Move your second finger to the second fret of the A string and lift up your third finger. So, you can practice strumming that a few times. Another thing you can practice is you can go from the E string and then you can go to the A but play it like this, but you can mute the high E string with the fleshy part of your index finger and just don't press it down all the way. So, you can practice that on your own and now, when you're ready, we can go on and learn the B7 chord."