OK, I want to show you a trick today, a one trick that will literally double your core vocabulary.
Now, I'm using the jam stick today because it's going to help you to be able to see the fretboard in
a way that you may not be able to by just looking at my fingers.
And it'll make it easier, actually.
And this concept that I'm about to show you is moving one finger to allow the flat seven of the chord
to be heard.
Now, you don't have to know what that means, but if we were playing a scale doe ray me fossil latty,
though, or one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, one, we basically would take the seven,
we'd flatten two, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, seven.
We'd put that note in the cord.
OK, now we don't have to be able to sing that.
We don't have to be able to, you know, to identify it by name or anything.
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
major chords and all your minor chords, you'll be able to take the major chords and create dominant
seventh chords.
Also known as seventh chords.
And you'll be able to take minor chords and you'll be able to create minor seventh chords.
And in fact, minor seventh chords and dominant seventh chords are the most used chords in jazz and
swing and those styles of music.
So you'll be off to the races in understanding those.
And when you get to the swing portion of the program, if you're if you're planning on watching that
in the end, the unstoppable guitar system, then you'll be ahead of the game by knowing how to do this.
OK.
All right.
So let's check this out.
So the concept is really quite easy, but we have a couple of things that we need to understand.
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.
And once we do that, it's super quick.
OK.
So first off, I'm going to play a couple chords here.
So I want to play a G major.
And then I'm going to play a G seven.
Now, actually, that showed up as a G seven both times.
So this pinky here.
Notice that if I go to that little green LCD that's moving back and forth.
That is the seventh.
So here's the standard G major chord.
And then here's the G seven Cawsey.
That's really the only thing that we're doing is we're just moving that one note.
OK.
Same thing here with the F if we just move that one note back and forth.
That's the only difference.
Or if we went from an a minor, you know, we're playing this note and then we're getting the G or an
E major.
Now, the way we do this is we need to take the letter name of the cord and we need to move it down
one whole step and preferably it needs to be a no.
That's not the base notes.
What I mean by that is the lowest note.
OK.
We need to find some other.
Note that is the route, but not the bass note, the difference between the bass note and the route
is the bass note is the lowest note in the court and the route is the letter name of the chord.
That we name the court after, so for instance, a G chord has a G in the base, OK?
It also has a G as the root.
But I could play this is a G g major chord or I could play this as a G chord.
OK.
Now, both of those are G chords.
It just so happens that this G chord has a B in the bass.
More on that later.
But suffice to say, there is a bass note and there's a root note.
Sometimes there they're the same notes, but they don't have to be now.
So what we need to do is once I show you these examples, it'll make more sense.
So let's take, for instance, a G major chord or let's let's take an F, actually.
So we have our F chord here.
This note here is the letter name of the chord, because if we have an E right here and then an F.
OK.
And in order to find.
The octave.
Well, there's a few different ways we can do it, but we're going to do this one way here where basically
we go down to strings and up to frets and that's going to be the octave.
And what we have to do is once we find the octave, we're gonna go down one whole step.
So we're gonna go right there.
And that's the note we're going to play instead of this one.
So here's our F major chord.
And so if we take that pinky, we go down a whole step.
Then.
We're gonna have a seventh chord, OK?
And this would work with the E major, same way we're gonna go from the E to the D.
The G or the F chord to the F seven.
And this would work if we moved it up the fretboard.
Same thing.
F Sharp Major.
S Sharp seven.
Same thing with a G chord.
OK, and we could do this moving up and down the fretboard.
We do the same concept with minor forms.
So here that E minor.
And we have an E minor seven.
Here's an F sharp, minor, f sharp minor seven.
I'm sorry.
That was an F F minor F minor, seven f sharp.
F sharp minor seven, ending with a G.
So we can just move straight up the fretboard.
And.
The same concept now.
We could do this with the.
A major.
So remember, here's our A we're gonna go down to strings and up to Freda's.
Whoops.
So here's our a go down to Strain's up to France.
And so those are two A's, the yellow note in the green note.
So we have our a major chord and we drop that that a which is that green, this guy.
We move that down one whole step.
Then we have a seven chord.
OK.
And so I could take that and I could move that up the fretboard.
And each time it's gonna be a dominant seventh chord as opposed to playing.
Kind of hard to play on this little guy, but.
So you can see that one note moving.
And so same thing, that concept can move all the way up the fretboard.
OK.
Same thing with a minor chord.
So here is an a minor chord.
Here's an a minor seven by just moving that one note down a whole step.
You're going to have a whole nother chord.
Here is a.
A sharp.
Minor and then a sharp minor seven.
And then we move that up to a B minor.
And a B minus seven.
And so on.
OK, so you get the idea there.
Basically, you can do this with any form, I'm only showing you the sixth and fifth string routes,
but you could do this with fourth string or even, you know, any triad that you want to turn into a
dominant seventh.
Basically, what you're gonna do is you're going to find the octave and you're going to drop it back
one whole step.
OK, two, this is a great way.
These little tricks like this will help you to take your core vocabulary to great heights because you're
learning one trick and then applying that to many different chords.
This one little trick will literally double your chord vocabulary.
All right.
Hopefully you have that concept.
And what I want you to do is take some chords that, you know, work through the math by finding the
letter name of the chord, preferably not the bass note, but move up at least one octave, sometimes
two octaves, like, for instance, with a G major chord.
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
down one whole step.
And now we've got a G seven.
OK, or G dominant seven.
So here's our G Major.
And here's our G7.
And only thing I'm doing, there's moving that note down one whole step.
So you can do this with any chord.
You don't.
It doesn't have to be.
Doesn't have to be a six or fifth string root.
All right.
Practice this and let's keep moving on.