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Maj7 Chords of the Open Position | You Need to Know This!

Hello friends,

welcome back to Swiftlessons for another beginner friendly guitar tutorial. In today's session we're back to fundamentals as we discuss the origins of the major 7 harmony, and it's finger positions in the open position (first three frets). In total we will learn eight common shapes that you are likely to see in popular songs. Let's get started! 

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Maj7 Chords of the Open Position | You Need to Know This!

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thanks! i have to admit I didn't know all of these! it would be cool to show us a quick demo of a pop song using these

Yours is my favourite web site to learn music theory and song tutorials, it is also the best as far as Tabs are concerned. I was in Philadelphia last year, we could have gone for a beer!

Stefano.B65

Yes, technically it’s a bmaj7(no5), but jazzers omit 5th intervals all the time, so it’s not out of the ordinary. If you can manage to grab the 2nd fret of the high E string, you have the 5, but it’s a miserable little shape and the goal for this lesson was to teach open shapes that are somewhat easy to play. I meant to mention this, but it slipped my mind.

There is no 5th...

Looks good to me, is there something specific I’m missing?

Hey Brian, I’ll be filming the same style of lesson for dominant 7 chords this week. I’ve already posted a video breaking down the difference: https://www.patreon.com/posts/19417459

Nice! Plz double check Bmaj7 🙃

Excellent review Rob, my only suggestion would be to contrast these with the dominant 7 chords. When I first started playing (about 18 months ago) the theory behind these made my head spin a bit...


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