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Hi, how are you doing?
Justin here

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Welcome to IM-121 
which is the start of Foundation 2.

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In this lesson we're going to be checking out 
the E shaped bar chords,

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the Dominant 7th, and the minor 7th.

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Now I'm hoping 
that you've done lots of practice


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on your E-shaped major 
and minor bar chords,

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because these ones are 
just a little bit trickier 


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because they've got a few extra notes 
under the bar.

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There are things that you need to remember too,

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so make sure that all of this stuff 
goes into your memory bank.

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Don't have to rely on a book 
or a piece of paper or whatever,

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because when you're playing chords for real 
you can't be having a book around,

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so you've got to have the chord shapes in here.

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Let's get to a close up and check out 
this Dominant 7th

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and the minor 7th bar chord shapes.

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Here we are, 
starting with a G Major bar chord.

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The same rules apply, 
1st finger is still slightly on its side,

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the rest of the fingers are all on their tips,

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got a nice kind of round shape going on.
Now, to get our Dominant 7th chord,

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which is usually just said as a '7'.

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What I'm about to show you is 
a G Dominant 7th chord,

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but usually it will just be written 
and said as G7.

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All we have to do is lift our little finger off,

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so it should be kind of easier, right? 
Because we've got less fingers on.

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Well yeah and no.

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The thing that happens now 
is that we're using the bar here for this 4th string,

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so for the regular major chord,

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we've just got the thickest string, 
and the thinnest two strings played by the bar,

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so it can be round a bit, 
you know,

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that's not really touching these middle strings, 
but now, once the little finger has come off,

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you have to be really thinking 
of the pressure there

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in the the middle part of that 1st finger.

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Now, what some of you may find is 
that the note sounds a little bit dead

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and there's a few culprits.

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The most common one is 
the 3rd finger's laying a little bit too flat

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and touching that 4th string,

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so you'll find just by kind of pressing 
this part of your hand up a little bit,

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it'll make the finger a little rounder.

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. . .

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and you'll get that note back again.

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Now, other times, people haven't got 
their bar strong enough yet,

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and that's why we're looking at 
these chords now.

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It's because they really work on getting 
your bar strengths really good,

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and you'll have to press that part.

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That middle part of your 1st finger 
really has to press down hard

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in order to get that note.

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Now, as usual, you'll be doing strum, 
pick the notes out one at a time, and strum.

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But you want to pay extra special attention to this note.

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For the G7 it's the note F.

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. . .

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The 4th string, 
that's the one that you really want to pay attention to.

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Now the other chord we're looking at 
in this lesson is a minor 7th.

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. . .

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and this one, as you can see,
there's a lot of barre work going on,

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so we've got,
the barre is covering all 6 strings,

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the 3rd finger is in its usual place,
2 frets above the barre on the 5th string.

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. . .

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But all of the notes are played by the barre,

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so this one really requires 
good barre stamina and good strength.

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I mentioned it last time, 
but I'll mention it again

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you've got to press in the middle of the barre,

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that's where you've got to feel
the pressure going on for this chord.


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It's no good having a slightly round one now.

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You've really got to be thinking 
about that pressure going right in.

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Now, I do tend to hear if I'm using this one

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the 2nd finger can kind of sneak in here 
for a bit of support there.

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Because that's a pretty tough chord,

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especially when I hold it for a long time 
on an acoustic guitar,

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it gets pretty tough even for me to do it, 
you know so, I do it fine,

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but if I had to do it for a long time, 
I'd probably get 2nd finger

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just laying there on top of the 1st finger 
to give it a little bit of support.

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As usual you'll be picking the strings
one at a time.

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The only kind of common things 
that you get here

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is the barre not working properly,

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you might have the 3rd finger laying down
a little bit too flat

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and muting the 4th string, 
not as likely

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because you generally have to push 
your hand around a little bit

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to get that proper pressure 
down with the barre.

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It's a bit of a fiddle, you know, 
it's a tough chord.

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That's not one you're probably going to get right away, 
you know,

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unless you've got really big strong hands.

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I really struggled with this, 
when I learnt it, you know .

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It's just developing that kind of strength there

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with the muscle in between your thumb 
and your' first finger there.

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That's the one that gets 
a bit of a workout for this.

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You should be feeling that.

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So now just to kind of recap, 
you should know your major

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. . .

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minor,

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. . .

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go back to major again,
lift off little finger,

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. . .

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you've got the 7th

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back to major again, lift off your little finger 
and your 2nd finger

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. . .

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and you get the minor 7.

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So, in case you hadn't noticed, 
lifting off the little finger is the one that makes it 7.

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So there's major, there's 7,

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there's minor, there's minor 7.

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So, that's a good little trick to help you remember 
the names of the different shapes,

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and now all you've got to do is practice them.

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Well I hope that you enjoy the workout 
that practicing those chords is going to give you.

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Don't be too disappointed 
if you find that minor 7 chord pretty hard.

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It's a tricky little number that one.


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Getting that barre strong enough,
holding down all of those notes, 


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it's a tough call 
and it just takes practice.

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It's all about developing that muscle 
between your first finger and your thumb.

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Technique of course has a role as well,

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making sure that your barre is rolled onto the side 
and that kind of thing.

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That's still important, but, as well, 
it's kind of just a strength thing.

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It's just going to take a little bit of practice.


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So have fun with that,

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make sure you remember 
to put them into your memory.

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Don't leave them out in the cold 
in the book, you know,

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make sure you get them in there.

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Practice them, 
look at the relationship between them

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so you can see what it is that changes 
between the major and the minor.

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Listen to them as well, you know.
Not a bad idea to have a listen to them

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and kind of get used to 
what the different chords sound like.

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We'll be doing a bit more of that 
later on, anyway.

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Have fun, and I shall see you 
for more lessons very very soon. Bye Bye.