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Hello, how you doing? Justin here.

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Welcome to Stage 5.

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And in this first lesson of Stage 5,

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we're going to be checking out 3 new chords

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and they're going to be A7, D7 and E7.

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You'll be please to know [br]they are a little easier

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than the previous 7th chords we learned.

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But hopefully your fingers [br]are nice and limber

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and ready to get some new sounds in your ears.

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So let's go to a close up [br]and check out these new chords.

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OK, here's the first chord we're checking out today.

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And this is A7.

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Now this a pretty straight forward chord.

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If you are used to playing [br]a regular A chord,

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then A7 is as simple as lifting off your first finger

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and you've got A7.

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Making sure, of course, [br]that you don't play the thickest string

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because that's got the little cross to it.

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And we go through and check out the notes (plays)

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The difficulty here is always getting the open strings

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so making sure this second finger [br]is exactly positionned

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between the A string and the G string

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or the 5th string and the 3rd string

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depending on what lingo you like. (plays)

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So sometimes that G string can be [br]a little bit difficult : you get that

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(plays) from that second finger.

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so just, again, it's about using [br]those fingertips (plays)

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Same with that third finger, [br]nice, sharply done (plays)

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Now there is a little variation [br]that you can also play for this A7.

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If you've been playing your A chord like this,

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with the first finger bar[br]and you're digging that method,

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you might probably find [br]that doing that,

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if you've got big fingers, [br]is pretty difficult to get your A7.

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So another common one is [br]to use our little A mini bar chord

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and then putting down the third finger

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on the thinner string there (plays) [br]on the third fret of the thinner string

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so regular A mini bar, [br]adding 3rd finger on the thinner string.

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This is kind of your classic [br]kind of blues one

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if you're doing kind of[br]Robert Johnson stylie stuff

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or Clapton or something.

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You'd probably tend to play A7 like this [br](plays)

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A very hip little chord, that one.

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OK, the next chord we are going to check out [br]is this one.

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This is D7 (plays), [br]lovely sounding little chord.

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I kind of think of it like it's a backwards D,

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like these two notes are the same. [br]There's your regular D

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and the note on this string [br]is just moved back two frets (plays)

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We go to D7, if you look at a picture of it, [br]it kind of looks like a mirror of the D.

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It's how I remember the D7 [br]or how I used to.

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And so we're just starting [br]1st finger : 1st fret, 2nd string,

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2nd finger : 2nd fret, 3rd string

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and 3rd finger down on the 2nd fret [br]of the thinner string, 1st string.

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Pretty straight forward, [br]the difficulty here again is making sure

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that this finger is nice and pointed [br]and not muting the second string.

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So (plays) that's the string [br]you want to check the most,

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is the B string, 2nd string (plays),

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remembering of course that we are not [br]playing the thickest two strings.

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And the last chord [br]that we are going to look at [br]

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in this little segment is E7.[br]Now there's a regular E,

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if we lift off the third finger, [br]we've got E7.

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. . .

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Again, really nice sounding little chord.

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The difficulty again is getting [br]this finger pointy enough (plays)

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. . .

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to hear that D string closely.

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. . .

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That's the fourth string there [br]I am checking.

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That's the hardest one to get.

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The rest of it, if you can do it, [br]you should find pretty straight forward.

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Just, you might have [br]a little bit of fun with that.

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If you have too much fun with it [br]or it's too difficult,

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start with your regular E [br]

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and just simply add [br]your little finger down here

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. . .

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in the third fret of the second string

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and you've got another really, [br]really cool way of playing E7.

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So, there's a bunch more new [br]dominant sounding chords for you to play,

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dominant meaning seven chords.

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So the big name for all of these sort of chords [br]is the dominant seventh chord,

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like an A dominant seventh, [br]but it just gets shortened to A7.

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So, just in case you hearing people [br]calling them dominant chords

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and you're not sure what that means,

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dominant seven and seven by itself [br]are exactly the same thing.

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But they do have a different sound [br]to major seven,

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as you probably remember [br]from our F major seven chord.

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It doesn't have a very bluesy sound,

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where all these seventh chords, [br]dominant seventh chords,

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. . .

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they sound bluesy.

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. . .

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They've got that kind of real earthy blues sound [br]to dominant seventh chords.

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Very good ones for your ears.

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You should definitely be doing your ear training [br]or JUSTIN ear training stuff

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to make sure you recognize [br]the sound of those dominant chords.

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Very useful.

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So, those three chords we are going to make [br]a blues in the common chord sequences.

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So make sure you go and check that out.

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But we've got a few other little tricks [br]to teach you this lesson first.

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So stay tuned and I'll see you [br]for another little lesson very soon.

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Well, I hope you enjoyed [br]those new chords to check out.

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They're all quite bluesy sounding, [br]pretty cool I reckon.

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It doesn't really matter [br]which version of the different chords.

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So, I've showed you two different ways [br]of playing the A7

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and two different ways [br]of playing the E7.

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You can use whichever one you like.

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It's really a matter of taste, [br]listening to the sound of it and going :

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'Yeah, I want this sound in this song [br]or I want that sound'.

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Really, the quality of the chord, [br]if it says A7 in the sheet music,

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you can play A7 whatever way you like.

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And it's still going to sound cool.

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It's just a preference [br]as to which sound you want to hear.

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So, it's very important as well[br]that you get this sound of the A7 chords in your ear,

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not the A7, all of the seventh chords in your ear.

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Now you'll often hear these seventh chords [br]referred to as dominant sevenths.

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So when you say A7, [br]it really means A dominant seventh.

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But we just assume dominant [br]when we write A7.

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So, if you see A7 or A dominant 7, [br]then that's exactly the same thing.

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Now, it's really important [br]that you get used to the sound of this as well.

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The dominant seventh chords have [br]a real kind of bluesy sound to them.

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They've got a lot of pull,

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there's quite a lot of dissonance [br]in the sound of the chords.

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And that's very different [br]to the sound of major seventh.

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So, if you go back [br]and listen to your F major seven,

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you hear that it's got a different kind of -[br]I'll just do it for you now actually.

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If you listen to this (plays) [br]it's kind of quite a happy sound

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. . .

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Where as the dominant seventh chords

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. . .

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is quite sharp. [br]It's got a real

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. . .

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It's got a lot of pull in it

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and a lot of that kind of [br]'aarrr' dissonance going on.

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So make sure that you listen, [br]do a little bit of ear training,

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that JUSTIN ear training stuff [br]

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or whatever that helps you[br]sort out the sounds of the different chords.

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It's very important,

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especially when you are transcribing [br]and working out songs for yourself,

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that you can hear the sound of the chord [br]and go :

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'Oh yeah, that's a dominant seventh chord [br]or that's a major seven

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or that's a minor nine chord[br]or whatever.

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So, as we're learning [br]each of these new chords,

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you should be trying to get the sound [br]of those chords firmly in your ear.

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OK, now we're going to have [br]a little bit of look at

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a very, very little, [br]very easy bit of music theory.

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See you in a sec.