Learn the B7 Chord on Guitar
In this video we're learning about the B7 chord on guitar! We’re going to cover how to create the B7 chord, what music notes it is made of and talk about some songs you can find it in!
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Welcome back! In another guitar video, we're gonna cover the B7 chord in this one. Which can be a little difficult, especially for beginners, because we 're actually using four fingers to make it in the open position. But with a little practice, you'll get it. So let's take a closer look. Alright, so the way we're gonna make that B7 chord is we're first gonna mute that E string. We don't wanna play that. Then on the A string, we're gonna use our second finger, our middle finger, on the second fret of the A string. And on the D string, we're gonna use our index finger, or our first finger, on the first fret. On the G string, we're gonna use our ring finger, our third finger, second fret. Again G string. That B string is gonna be open. And then our pinky is gonna cover the second fret on the E string at the bottom. So with a closer look at the guitar, we're gonna mute that E string. Then I'm gonna go second fret, first fret, second fret, open, second fret. So then we're gonna mute, second fret, middle finger, A string, index finger, first fret, D string. Then I'm gonna use my ring finger, second fret, G string. Open D string, and then pinky on the E string, second fret. So again, that's mute, second fret, first fret, second fret, open, pinky. Visually, I actually like to see the B7 chord as like an elevated D7. So if you know the D7 chord, starting from the D string, open, two, one, two. Second fret, first fret, second fret. If I raise my fingers in the same shape up a couple strings, and then add the pinky at the bottom, still muting the E string, and now the B7 chord. And just like any other chord, you wanna make sure that B7 sounds really good, and you wanna try to make it again and again and again, so that when you're trying to make it quickly, you can go right to that spot, and it sounds good every time. So you always wanna check your strings until you're really good at it . You wanna make sure you're not getting something like this in there, and then you fix it, but sometimes when you fix a string, you might mess up another one. So now you gotta check that one. So you just keep at it, and you just keep making that chord, and make sure everything sounds good until you can do it out of just pure muscle memory. The B7 chord is made up of the notes B, D#, F#, and A. You can find B7 in the keys of E major, and its relative minor of C sharp minor. Now if I were to sit down at a piano and I was gonna hit B7, typically I would hit the notes in that order, B, D#, F#, and A However, because we 're on guitar, we have extra strings to consider, things like that, we're actually gonna have a different stack of the notes usually. So if we look at this chord grid again of the B7 in the open position, instead of going B, D#, F#, and A like I typically would on a piano, we're actually going B, D#, A, B again, and then F# So it changes the order a little bit. So you hear the B7 chord a lot in stuff like the blues. But you're gonna hear it in a lot of popular songs too, like Heartbreak Hotel by Elvis, Sweet Home Chicago by Eric Clapton, Mean Mr. Mustard by The Beatles, Nothing Else Matters by Metallica, Lucky by Radiohead, and just a bunch of others. And of course we have a bunch of other ways you can play B7 on the guitar, and I'll demonstrate a bunch of them for you here. Well I hope you enjoyed learning about the B7 chord on guitar! If there are other chords you want me to cover, or you have other guitar questions, leave a comment, I'd love to get to them! Please don't forget to like and subscribe, and just remember to have fun, and happy practicing!