1 00:00:01,180 --> 00:00:07,930 OK, I want to show you a trick today, a one trick that will literally double your core vocabulary. 2 00:00:09,040 --> 00:00:15,010 Now, I'm using the jam stick today because it's going to help you to be able to see the fretboard in 3 00:00:15,010 --> 00:00:17,830 a way that you may not be able to by just looking at my fingers. 4 00:00:17,830 --> 00:00:19,120 And it'll make it easier, actually. 5 00:00:20,170 --> 00:00:30,880 And this concept that I'm about to show you is moving one finger to allow the flat seven of the chord 6 00:00:30,880 --> 00:00:31,690 to be heard. 7 00:00:31,720 --> 00:00:37,510 Now, you don't have to know what that means, but if we were playing a scale doe ray me fossil latty, 8 00:00:37,510 --> 00:00:41,950 though, or one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, one, we basically would take the seven, 9 00:00:41,950 --> 00:00:47,060 we'd flatten two, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, seven. 10 00:00:47,110 --> 00:00:49,390 We'd put that note in the cord. 11 00:00:49,840 --> 00:00:52,120 OK, now we don't have to be able to sing that. 12 00:00:52,120 --> 00:00:56,620 We don't have to be able to, you know, to identify it by name or anything. 13 00:00:56,620 --> 00:01:01,390 I'm to show you a quick trick that's going to allow you to be able to do this the way with all your 14 00:01:01,390 --> 00:01:06,040 major chords and all your minor chords, you'll be able to take the major chords and create dominant 15 00:01:06,040 --> 00:01:06,970 seventh chords. 16 00:01:07,480 --> 00:01:08,770 Also known as seventh chords. 17 00:01:09,490 --> 00:01:14,050 And you'll be able to take minor chords and you'll be able to create minor seventh chords. 18 00:01:14,710 --> 00:01:23,530 And in fact, minor seventh chords and dominant seventh chords are the most used chords in jazz and 19 00:01:23,680 --> 00:01:26,020 swing and those styles of music. 20 00:01:26,050 --> 00:01:29,650 So you'll be off to the races in understanding those. 21 00:01:29,890 --> 00:01:35,320 And when you get to the swing portion of the program, if you're if you're planning on watching that 22 00:01:35,680 --> 00:01:43,880 in the end, the unstoppable guitar system, then you'll be ahead of the game by knowing how to do this. 23 00:01:43,980 --> 00:01:44,210 OK. 24 00:01:44,740 --> 00:01:44,950 All right. 25 00:01:44,980 --> 00:01:45,970 So let's check this out. 26 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:51,700 So the concept is really quite easy, but we have a couple of things that we need to understand. 27 00:01:51,730 --> 00:01:56,050 It's one trick, but we have a couple of things that we need to be able to do in order to get to this. 28 00:01:56,350 --> 00:01:58,280 And once we do that, it's super quick. 29 00:01:58,890 --> 00:01:59,180 OK. 30 00:01:59,650 --> 00:02:02,610 So first off, I'm going to play a couple chords here. 31 00:02:02,620 --> 00:02:04,060 So I want to play a G major. 32 00:02:05,050 --> 00:02:07,240 And then I'm going to play a G seven. 33 00:02:08,040 --> 00:02:10,660 Now, actually, that showed up as a G seven both times. 34 00:02:10,990 --> 00:02:12,370 So this pinky here. 35 00:02:12,400 --> 00:02:19,330 Notice that if I go to that little green LCD that's moving back and forth. 36 00:02:19,750 --> 00:02:23,360 That is the seventh. 37 00:02:23,410 --> 00:02:26,470 So here's the standard G major chord. 38 00:02:26,770 --> 00:02:29,170 And then here's the G seven Cawsey. 39 00:02:29,200 --> 00:02:32,950 That's really the only thing that we're doing is we're just moving that one note. 40 00:02:33,180 --> 00:02:33,460 OK. 41 00:02:34,960 --> 00:02:38,320 Same thing here with the F if we just move that one note back and forth. 42 00:02:38,350 --> 00:02:39,910 That's the only difference. 43 00:02:40,270 --> 00:02:47,860 Or if we went from an a minor, you know, we're playing this note and then we're getting the G or an 44 00:02:47,890 --> 00:02:48,790 E major. 45 00:02:55,560 --> 00:03:04,860 Now, the way we do this is we need to take the letter name of the cord and we need to move it down 46 00:03:05,190 --> 00:03:09,870 one whole step and preferably it needs to be a no. 47 00:03:09,960 --> 00:03:11,730 That's not the base notes. 48 00:03:11,760 --> 00:03:13,740 What I mean by that is the lowest note. 49 00:03:13,880 --> 00:03:14,200 OK. 50 00:03:14,700 --> 00:03:16,350 We need to find some other. 51 00:03:17,940 --> 00:03:23,880 Note that is the route, but not the bass note, the difference between the bass note and the route 52 00:03:23,880 --> 00:03:30,510 is the bass note is the lowest note in the court and the route is the letter name of the chord. 53 00:03:32,230 --> 00:03:39,620 That we name the court after, so for instance, a G chord has a G in the base, OK? 54 00:03:40,900 --> 00:03:42,400 It also has a G as the root. 55 00:03:42,580 --> 00:03:47,740 But I could play this is a G g major chord or I could play this as a G chord. 56 00:03:49,020 --> 00:03:49,350 OK. 57 00:03:49,690 --> 00:03:51,570 Now, both of those are G chords. 58 00:03:52,620 --> 00:03:56,760 It just so happens that this G chord has a B in the bass. 59 00:03:56,880 --> 00:03:57,810 More on that later. 60 00:03:57,870 --> 00:04:02,520 But suffice to say, there is a bass note and there's a root note. 61 00:04:02,520 --> 00:04:06,010 Sometimes there they're the same notes, but they don't have to be now. 62 00:04:07,520 --> 00:04:10,830 So what we need to do is once I show you these examples, it'll make more sense. 63 00:04:10,860 --> 00:04:15,170 So let's take, for instance, a G major chord or let's let's take an F, actually. 64 00:04:15,950 --> 00:04:17,220 So we have our F chord here. 65 00:04:18,780 --> 00:04:24,930 This note here is the letter name of the chord, because if we have an E right here and then an F. 66 00:04:25,450 --> 00:04:25,740 OK. 67 00:04:26,730 --> 00:04:28,290 And in order to find. 68 00:04:29,580 --> 00:04:30,420 The octave. 69 00:04:30,450 --> 00:04:35,250 Well, there's a few different ways we can do it, but we're going to do this one way here where basically 70 00:04:35,250 --> 00:04:41,250 we go down to strings and up to frets and that's going to be the octave. 71 00:04:42,480 --> 00:04:46,990 And what we have to do is once we find the octave, we're gonna go down one whole step. 72 00:04:47,020 --> 00:04:48,060 So we're gonna go right there. 73 00:04:48,090 --> 00:04:50,430 And that's the note we're going to play instead of this one. 74 00:04:50,820 --> 00:04:53,610 So here's our F major chord. 75 00:04:54,750 --> 00:04:58,170 And so if we take that pinky, we go down a whole step. 76 00:04:58,590 --> 00:04:59,130 Then. 77 00:05:00,830 --> 00:05:02,620 We're gonna have a seventh chord, OK? 78 00:05:03,090 --> 00:05:08,200 And this would work with the E major, same way we're gonna go from the E to the D. 79 00:05:10,880 --> 00:05:14,270 The G or the F chord to the F seven. 80 00:05:14,690 --> 00:05:17,000 And this would work if we moved it up the fretboard. 81 00:05:17,030 --> 00:05:17,810 Same thing. 82 00:05:20,410 --> 00:05:21,690 F Sharp Major. 83 00:05:22,510 --> 00:05:23,920 S Sharp seven. 84 00:05:24,640 --> 00:05:25,840 Same thing with a G chord. 85 00:05:28,810 --> 00:05:31,440 OK, and we could do this moving up and down the fretboard. 86 00:05:31,470 --> 00:05:34,790 We do the same concept with minor forms. 87 00:05:34,800 --> 00:05:36,300 So here that E minor. 88 00:05:36,970 --> 00:05:38,280 And we have an E minor seven. 89 00:05:41,590 --> 00:05:45,360 Here's an F sharp, minor, f sharp minor seven. 90 00:05:47,980 --> 00:05:48,290 I'm sorry. 91 00:05:48,310 --> 00:05:53,110 That was an F F minor F minor, seven f sharp. 92 00:05:55,510 --> 00:05:58,640 F sharp minor seven, ending with a G. 93 00:05:58,880 --> 00:06:00,950 So we can just move straight up the fretboard. 94 00:06:03,020 --> 00:06:03,470 And. 95 00:06:06,980 --> 00:06:08,030 The same concept now. 96 00:06:08,750 --> 00:06:11,280 We could do this with the. 97 00:06:11,630 --> 00:06:12,470 A major. 98 00:06:13,790 --> 00:06:19,460 So remember, here's our A we're gonna go down to strings and up to Freda's. 99 00:06:20,640 --> 00:06:20,970 Whoops. 100 00:06:21,460 --> 00:06:25,020 So here's our a go down to Strain's up to France. 101 00:06:25,360 --> 00:06:30,220 And so those are two A's, the yellow note in the green note. 102 00:06:31,750 --> 00:06:40,840 So we have our a major chord and we drop that that a which is that green, this guy. 103 00:06:41,140 --> 00:06:42,970 We move that down one whole step. 104 00:06:43,300 --> 00:06:45,950 Then we have a seven chord. 105 00:06:46,910 --> 00:06:47,050 OK. 106 00:06:48,340 --> 00:06:51,380 And so I could take that and I could move that up the fretboard. 107 00:06:53,260 --> 00:06:57,130 And each time it's gonna be a dominant seventh chord as opposed to playing. 108 00:07:01,480 --> 00:07:03,220 Kind of hard to play on this little guy, but. 109 00:07:08,310 --> 00:07:10,070 So you can see that one note moving. 110 00:07:10,370 --> 00:07:13,310 And so same thing, that concept can move all the way up the fretboard. 111 00:07:13,720 --> 00:07:13,890 OK. 112 00:07:14,180 --> 00:07:15,430 Same thing with a minor chord. 113 00:07:15,480 --> 00:07:17,390 So here is an a minor chord. 114 00:07:18,650 --> 00:07:24,620 Here's an a minor seven by just moving that one note down a whole step. 115 00:07:24,950 --> 00:07:26,510 You're going to have a whole nother chord. 116 00:07:26,960 --> 00:07:28,010 Here is a. 117 00:07:30,580 --> 00:07:31,360 A sharp. 118 00:07:34,970 --> 00:07:37,580 Minor and then a sharp minor seven. 119 00:07:41,420 --> 00:07:43,350 And then we move that up to a B minor. 120 00:07:45,270 --> 00:07:46,390 And a B minus seven. 121 00:07:50,190 --> 00:07:50,850 And so on. 122 00:07:53,410 --> 00:07:55,530 OK, so you get the idea there. 123 00:07:55,810 --> 00:08:03,040 Basically, you can do this with any form, I'm only showing you the sixth and fifth string routes, 124 00:08:03,070 --> 00:08:10,630 but you could do this with fourth string or even, you know, any triad that you want to turn into a 125 00:08:10,750 --> 00:08:11,860 dominant seventh. 126 00:08:12,160 --> 00:08:17,080 Basically, what you're gonna do is you're going to find the octave and you're going to drop it back 127 00:08:17,080 --> 00:08:18,780 one whole step. 128 00:08:19,150 --> 00:08:22,000 OK, two, this is a great way. 129 00:08:22,390 --> 00:08:29,650 These little tricks like this will help you to take your core vocabulary to great heights because you're 130 00:08:29,650 --> 00:08:34,750 learning one trick and then applying that to many different chords. 131 00:08:34,870 --> 00:08:37,690 This one little trick will literally double your chord vocabulary. 132 00:08:38,470 --> 00:08:38,750 All right. 133 00:08:39,550 --> 00:08:41,320 Hopefully you have that concept. 134 00:08:41,800 --> 00:08:48,220 And what I want you to do is take some chords that, you know, work through the math by finding the 135 00:08:48,430 --> 00:08:53,980 letter name of the chord, preferably not the bass note, but move up at least one octave, sometimes 136 00:08:53,980 --> 00:08:56,710 two octaves, like, for instance, with a G major chord. 137 00:08:57,070 --> 00:09:02,320 We could take this G that's at the top because this is a G and we take this G at the top and move it 138 00:09:02,320 --> 00:09:04,690 down one whole step. 139 00:09:04,780 --> 00:09:06,910 And now we've got a G seven. 140 00:09:07,240 --> 00:09:08,800 OK, or G dominant seven. 141 00:09:09,070 --> 00:09:10,330 So here's our G Major. 142 00:09:11,510 --> 00:09:12,620 And here's our G7. 143 00:09:12,720 --> 00:09:17,600 And only thing I'm doing, there's moving that note down one whole step. 144 00:09:17,740 --> 00:09:19,330 So you can do this with any chord. 145 00:09:19,360 --> 00:09:19,570 You don't. 146 00:09:19,600 --> 00:09:20,770 It doesn't have to be. 147 00:09:21,560 --> 00:09:23,260 Doesn't have to be a six or fifth string root. 148 00:09:24,040 --> 00:09:24,550 All right. 149 00:09:25,440 --> 00:09:28,440 Practice this and let's keep moving on.