How to Voice an A7 Chord

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Now we're going to go over our last chord our A seven chord. The seventh chord is derived out of the fifth degree of the scale and that can be kind of confusing. The reason it's called as seventh chord is your taking the seventh degree of this scale we are discovering right now and you're lowering a notch and we'll show you that. If we go up D major D, E, F, G, A right? One, two, three, four, five we have A and that's our A seven and you'll see one, three, five, seven right? There's our one, three, five, seven if we go up the same scale. One, three, five, seven so you notice the seventh is a whole step below the A. In A major would have a half step below That's why it's called a seventh is you get that sound and you can hear A major, seventh, can you hear the difference? This chord is used in Blues and Jazz everywhere. So we got our A seven and it is derived out of the same scale. Again we number it one, three, five, seven, nine, eleven, thirteen. So those are our inner voicings. So now you can do some A seven voicings. Now when you voice A seven and you voice the eleventh it actually makes it sound like a A sass chord which is a different chord entirely. So you can hear the difference between that right? Here is A sus, A sus, A major, A sus, or A seven I didn't mean A major, A seven. So by outlining one, three, five, and seven and nine and eleven you'll get A seven sounds. Again if you put the fourth in there it gives it a new tone quality which is called a suspension. So that's our A seven chord and you can say our A sus chord as well. Sus means suspended seventh or suspended fourth.

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