D7 Guitar Chord

Today's Guitar Chord of the Day is D7. This chord is easy to play in open position and is used in thousands of songs. To remember this fingering you can think of it as a mirror image of a regular D major chord.
When playing this D7 Guitar Chord it's important not to play the bottom E string as this not is not in the chord.

7th chords are constructed using these scale degrees: 1, 3, 5, b7
D7 uses these notes: D, F#, A, C

Here is another fingering of the D7 chord. This inversion is in 3rd position and is simply a C7 chord moved up two frets.

Be careful not to play either E string when playing this chord.

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Cminor guitar chord

Today's Guitar Chord of the Day is Cminor. Cminor can also be written as Cm, Cmin or even C- these symbols all represent the same chord. We'll look at two different fingerings of the Cminor chord, one easy version that doesn't require a barre and a slightly more tricky version that requires a barre on the 3rd fret.

 This first fingering involves playing only the top four strings.
Place your fingers close to the frets and listen carefully to make sure each string sounds clearly

The next inversion is very similar but uses a barre at the 3rd fret. Here, you lay your first finger just behind the 3rd fret across the top 5 strings.

You can also barre across the bottom E string and play all 6 strings if you wish.

Minor chords are constructed using these scale degrees: 1, b3, 5
Cminor uses these notes = C, Eb, G


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Bb minor guitar chord

Today's guitar chord of the day is Bb minor and we'll be looking at two different fingerings for this chord. The first fingering is the easiest as it doesn't involve a barre and uses just the top four strings.
Place your fingertips just behind the fret to get a clean sound with no buzzing.

The second fingering of this chord uses a barre. Here we lay the edge of your first finger just behind the first fret.
Play each note of the Bb minor chord individually and make sure that they all sound cleanly with no buzzing.

Minor chords use these scale degrees: 1, b3, 5
Bb minor uses these notes = Bb, Db, F

These chords are movable, playing the same fingering on another fret transposes the chord to a different key:

1st fret Bb minor / A# minor

• 2nd fret B minor
• 3rd fret C minor
• 4th fret Db minor / C# minor
• 5th fret D minor
• 6th fret Eb minor / D# minor
• 7th fret E minor
• 8th fret F minor
• 9th fret Gb minor / F# minor
• 10th fret G minor
• 11th fret Ab minor / G# minor

G minor guitar chord

Today's guitar chord of the day is G minor. You might see this chord written in several different ways, but they all refer to the same thing:

• Gminor
• Gmin
• Gm, or even on jazz lead sheets
• G-

We're going to look at three different ways of playing the G minor chord. The first fingering involves a half-barre. For this fingering you lay your first finger across the two three strings of your guitar at the 3rd fret and use your 3rd finger to hold down the 5th fret of the D string.
Make sure that each notes sounds cleanly with no buzzing. It helps to place your finger as close to the fret as you can

The second fingering of this chord involves playing a full barre chord on the guitar. Here you lay your 1st finger across all six strings of the guitar just behind the 3rd fret.

Again make sure all of the notes sound cleanly with no buzzing. 

The final fingering of the G minor we'll look at today doesn't involve a barre, using one finger for each of the four strings we're playing.


The root note of this fingering is on the bottom E string of the guitar

Minor chords use these degrees of the major scale: 1, b3, 5
Gminor uses these notes: G, Bb, D




These chord can be moved to transposed to any other key by moving the shape around on the fretboard. The square in the chord box indicates where the root note is in this chord.

• 1st fret: F minor
• 2nd fret: F#/Gb minor
• 3rd fret: G minor
• 4th fret: G#/Ab minor
• 5th fret: A minor
• 6th fret: A#/Bb minor
• 7th fret: B minor
• 8th fret: C minor
• 9th fret: C#/Db minor
• 10th fret: D minor
• 11th fret: D#/Eb minor
• 12th fret: E minor

Dsus4 Guitar Chord

Today's Guitar Chord of the Day is Dsus4. Dsus4 is used lots to add interest to D major chords. This sus4 chord is really easy to play, start with a regular D major chord and add your little finger to the 4rd fret of the top E string.

Although it might look easier to play this chord with your first three fingers, don't. 99.99% of the time this chord is played together with a regular D major chord, using your little finger on the 3rd fret makes this change really easy.

Sus4 chords are so called, because they 3rd of the chord is replaced by the 4th. This gives a suspended sound as our ear is expecting the 4th to resolve to the 3rd.

Sus4 chords use the degrees from the major scale: 1, 4, 5
The Dsus4 chord uses these notes: D, G, A

This Dsus4 guitar chord is used in thousands of songs:

• More Than A Feeling Boston
• Just Give Me A Reason Pink
• What It Takes Aerosmith
• Wonderwall Oasis
• and many more...

Try adding sus4 chords as embellishments to major chords next time you play your favourite song and tune back soon for another Guitar Chord of the Day.

E7 Guitar Chord

Today's Guitar Chord of The Day is E7 and we're trying out to different fingerings of E7 in open position. Our first E7 chord is an easy guitar chord to play. Start with an E major chord and remove your 3rd finger.

This lets the open D string ring.

E7 uses these notes: E, G#, B, D
7th chords use the notes from the major scale: 1, 3, 5, b7

Our second way of playing the E7 Guitar Chord in open position also starts with playing a regular E major chord. This time you add your little finger on the 3rd fret of the B string.
Here is the fingering for this chord.

Try using this chords in a Blues progression in A or E and tune back soon for another guitar chord of the day.

G7 Guitar Chord

Today's Guitar Chord of the Day is G7. The G7 chord is a common chord in the key of C and is also used in Blues chord progressions.
The first fingering of this guitar chord is in open position. Note that it has one note different to a standard open G chord.
It's easy to play this chord with your first finger on the 1st fret of the E string, 2nd finger on the 2nd fret of the A string and 3rd finger on the 3rd fret of the bottom E string.

7th chords use the following notes: 1, 3, 5, b7
G7 uses these notes: G, B, D, F

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