E Major 7 Guitar Chord

Today's Guitar Chord of the Day is E Major 7. Today's guitar chord is easy to play and mixes open strings and fretted notes - these guitar chords have a nice sounding quality to them.
Major 7 can replace Major triads for chords I and IV in Major keys.

Major  chords use these degrees of the major scale: 1, 3, 5, 7

E Major 7 uses the notes: E, G#, B, D#
Our guitar inversion uses the notes in this order: E, G#, D#, B, E

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E major7

Today's guitar chord of the day is a standard root position fingering of E major7. This chord is the sustained ringing chord used in the famous Red Hot Chilli Pepper's song Under the Bridge from the Blood Sugar Sex Magik album.
As mentioned in a previous post, major seventh chords can be written in a few different ways. E major 7, E maj7 and EΔ7 all mean the same thing. 

Major 7 can replace Major triads for chords I and IV in Major keys.

Major  chords use these degrees of the major scale: 1, 3, 5, 7

E Major 7 uses the notes: E, G#, B, D#
Our inversion uses the notes in this order: E, B, D#, G#

This major 7 inversion can be created by taking this dominant 7th chord (from the series 12 dominant 7th guitar chords every guitarist should know) and lowering the 7th one fret.

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F Major 7

Today's Guitar Chord of the Day is F Major 7. This is a first inversion chord: it has the 3rd of the chord as the lowest note.
Major 7 chords are very common chords, but this is our first Major 7 guitar inversion on Guitar Chord a Day. The major seventh is sometimes written as Δ7, so F major 7, F maj7 and FΔ7 all mean the same thing.

Major 7 can replace Major triads for chords I and IV in Major keys.

Major  chords use these degrees of the major scale: 1, 3, 5, 7

F Major 7 uses the notes: F, A, C, E

Our inversion uses the notes in this order: A, F, C, E

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