Seventh (7th) Chord

Did you ever see chords like Am7 or B7, can you play it right away?
If you still confused about this kind of chord, you come to the right place. I’ll tell you how to play this kind of chord.

First of all you should know how chords are shaped, read this if you don’t know Chord Major and Minor

Seventh chords are consist of triad and a 7^th note. The triad are 1-3-5. There are different kind of 7^th.
Look at this, what’s different between AM7 and A7 or Am7?

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Suspended Chord

What is suspended chord? Let’s see, suspended chord is musical chord which is the third note turned into the 4^th or 2^nd. Suspended chord has the sound of open sound.
Suspended chord used in many rock song. So if you looking for alternative sound for your music, you can this chord.

So let’s see how the suspended chord shaped.

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Chords Major and Minor

What are chords? chord is harmonic of three set note or more and played together as if played simultaneously. If you want to play music, you should know your chords.
Here are the three set or more for Major chord and Minor chord
Major Chord  : 1  3    5
Minor Chord  : 1  3b  5

here is an example,
let's say you want to play C major chord, so we know that the root or the first note are C, and then :
1   3   5
C  E  G
And that is the C major chord, C major chord are consist of C, E, G notes.

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The Major Scale (Advance)

Have you read The Major Scale (Basic) ? if not, i recommend to read it first.

So now you know how major scale formed, and now how to play it on guitar?
To know every note you play on guitar is a must, but of course it will take very long time.
There is a trick to play major scale without knowing what note you played, the trick is using major scale pattern. There are 5 pattern.

Let's see, if want to play C Major Scale,

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The Major Scale (Basic)

Hello there fellow guitarist!

Now we're going to learn about Major Scale,
What is major scale?
well you can say Major scale or Ionian scale is serial of notes with a specific sequences of interval between notes. The sequence of interval are :

• whole, whole, half, whole, whole, whole, half   >> W W H W W W H

confused? okay lets take this slowly.

lets take an example, let just say we are going to play C Major Scale, that mean we are going take C as root or the first note. so the scales are :

• C (W) D (W) E (H) F (W) G (W) A (W) B (H) C

in guitar fret Whole mean two step and Half is one step. let's take a look :

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