Electric guitar · Seventh chord

G7G Seventh

  • Key: C Major
  • Easy
  • Popular
  • Open chord

G7 is the G seventh chord on electric guitar, made of the notes G · B · D · F.

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Notes

  • G
  • B
  • D
  • F

Structure

  1. 1
  2. 3
  3. 5
  4. ♭7
Sound
Dominant seventh
Tense, bluesy
Harmonic function
Dominant
Creates tension that resolves to the tonic.

Harmonic field of C Major

DegreeChordFunction
ICTonic
iiDmSubdominant
iiiEmTonic relative
IVFSubdominant
VGDominant
viAmTonic relative
vii°BdimDominant

How to play

  1. 1Place your index finger on fret 1 of string 1.
  2. 2Place your middle finger on fret 2 of string 5.
  3. 3Place your ring finger on fret 3 of string 6.
  4. 4Let strings 4, 3, 2 ring open.
  5. 5Strum all the strings.

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