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All right, we're gonna look for
a minor seven chord and we're gonna find
it by just going through the steps.
And to review,
we'll start with the major A chord.
We are gonna work just with
our open chords right now.
Here's an A major again,
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Now,
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we're gonna find the third which we know
is from A up the ladder is,
one, two, three, do, re, mi.
Okay, remember to make a chord minor
we're gonna go down a half step.
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So,
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yeah, okay, minor.
Now I want a minor seven chord,
I want an A minor seven chord.
I'm just gonna add the flat seven,
which really means
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a G note.
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And that G note
we found, right?
So if we want up the scale, up the ladder,
just in the A, B, C, D, E, F, G, right?
A, B, C, D, E, F, G, that's seven.
That's our seventh.
And we figured out that's our flat seven
because G is a whole step away from A.
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Just like when we were making our
dominant seven of chords, so
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and just notice something,
see what I'm doing here?
I'm muting the E string.
I'm just touching my
thumb over it like that.
Over the neck, it's just touching it.
If I just barely touch the side
of that string, it won't ring.
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Okay, there's A minor seven.
Let's check out our D chord,
now we'll go to our D.
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All right so
there's D,
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to make it minor we're gonna take our
third.
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And then to make it a minor seven chord,
we're gonna take our D note [SOUND] and
move it down.
A whole step to C.
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So remember, and that C,
that's our seventh.
We're going D, E, F, G, A, B, C, seven.
Better way to count it, on the one hand.
All right, here we go.
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You can toggle back and
forth between those and
just check out the sound.
It's a little different.
Here is a A minor seven.
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D minor seven.
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Now let's check out,
it's got a little different color than
if it was it's just a straight minor.
A straight minor in that
case would sound like this.
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Minor
seventh.
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Take an ear just a little bit
of a different flavor, a little
different color to it, all right?
And then we did E minor.
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Same thing.
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All right, so
that was
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E major.
We made it minor.
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And then,
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now this one is interesting.
This brings up another possibility.
You can hear, like, when we really,
all we're doing is letting go
of this E note
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to create that D, let that D ring.
That's our 7th.
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It gets a little thick down there.
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This definitely qualifies as a usable
chord.
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There's
that seven.
A little bottom heavy maybe sometimes.
So, a lotta times I'll
play that chord here.
Remember that trick I showed you before
on the major seven where we took
one of the low notes?
Maybe we wanted to clean up the sound and
the bottom end a little bit.
We moved it up an octave,
all right, we moved it up.
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So, I would take this D note sometimes and
instead of playing that D
note I'll play this one.
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So then,
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fingering changes a little bit.
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You get that nice sound.
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All right, so there's
an option card you can play
on the E minor seven chord.
So,
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there's minor seven.
Here's
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a different version of the minor 7,
where you take that flat seven and
move it up an octave.
So that's, instead of this note,
you pull this note.
Same D,
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different octave.
All right, so [LAUGH] now,
whoa, that's a concept now.
Wait a second would that work on A seven?
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I think it would.
We could take this G
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and play that G.
So, we just take the triad,
but add that note.
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A little difference there,
it gives us kind of yet
a totally different flavor.
This is a different
voicing of the same chord.
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So, something to consider.
There you go.
There's some minor seven cords for
our open A, D and E.
Now, let's think about some
other minor seven chords.
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