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Summary: Playing an augmented major 7 guitar chord is easy to create by lowering the 8th to a 7th. Learn tips on how to play this chord on the guitar from an experienced guitar player in this free video clip.
Thomas Marchevsky is a professional guitarist/composer and college professor. He has an M.M. in guitar from the New England Conservatory in Boston. He teaches private lessons at his...read more
"Here we're going to take major seven a step further. This will be an augmented major seven. Essentially a combination of augmented and major seven. Let's go back to the A chord here. Now we took our duplicate A note. We had two A's, the open A and this A on the second fret of the G string. We move this down from the eight the Octave down to the seven so now we've got a major seven chord. Augmented we said was raising the five by one fret so our five is and E here. We want to raise that up one fret and now we've got augmented major seven. Now you got to be careful because you also have an E that's an open string up here. You have to make sure that all of the E's not just one of them move up so we also have to move this open E up here up to the first fret. Augmented major seven."