Dominant 7th CAGED Shapes

Hello, how you doing, Mike Bradley here, hope you're doing well as always, and welcome to Acoustic Blues. Uh, we're gonna start diving into some ideas and techniques, you know, some great acoustic blues sounds on the Gel guitar, OK. Now in this first lesson, which I think is very, very important, is getting to know where. Your shapes are of, no, your chords, in this instance we're gonna look at the dominant 7th chord shape, uh, because dominant 7th or any kind of dominant chord is used an awful lot in blues. In case you don't know what a dominant chord is, hopefully you do if you're watching this, but just in case, it's basically an ambiguous chord. It's got a major 3rd and a minor 7th in it. We've got here a C. E and a G. Which is your regular C major chord, but it's also got. This B flat, so if we've got 1234567, there's your 7th note of B and we're flattening it or making it to a minor 7th. And now we got C7. So what we're gonna do, uh, we're gonna play this all in E, OK, E7, and just to get used to playing it around the guitar, this happens an awful lot, and in the next lesson we're gonna do a little cool boogie piece. Basically we're gonna be doing a thing called the cage system. So we've got a C shape, an A shape, a G shape, an E shape and a D shape, hence the word caged. This first one here. You probably know already, alright, if you've got a regular E cord, take your 3rd finger off. And you've got E7 now. Alright. Now the next one we're gonna do is a D-shaped one. Which would be here, now already. That sounds bluesy, hopefully you agree, right. So here we're gonna be on the 3rd string full fret, 2nd string 3rd fret. And our ring finger is on the first string full threat. Now the full voicing of the chord would be that, having our first finger on the E. Now you can still do that, but in what we'll be doing with blues. It'd be kind of that, so if you think of a no, hopefully you know what a D7 chord is. Roll with it, and stuff like that, you know, from Oasis, it's literally that moved up, and it could be in the key of E. We've got our open string there going, so we've got an E7. And we got an E7. Alright, so next shape we're gonna do is the C shape. OK, now funnily enough at the beginning of the video, I talked about it, so if we get our regular C cord. If I whack my little finger on the 3rd fret, uh, 3rd string on that B flat. We've got the flat 7, which is a C7 cord. Now with this shape, the root note is where my ring finger is, OK. So where I move that will be the name of that chord, will be the, the key of that chord. So an E note is on the 7th fret, so if I take that shape down. I've now got E7 and could be in the key of E, you can play all six strings, if you really want to, right? So you've got E7 here, using the E shape. E7 using a D shape. E7 using a C shape. OK, now we're gonna do the A shape. Now that is coming from. This A7 here. 2nd string on the full fret, 3rd finger on the 2nd string, these are the fingerings I use anyway. So obviously the bar would be like so. So we've, it's the root note is on the 5th string, we've established where an E note is on the 5th string, so. We've got this idea here. So what I did for my 2nd and 3rd, I'm actually using my 3rd and little fingers here. So now we've got E7 using E shape. E7 using a D E7 using a C. E7 using the A. Right, the next one is G, the G shape. Now, a regular G7 chord. Is like, so, now if I take that down to an E note on the 6th string, it's gonna sound like this. Not pretty, so I would have to bar a bit of barring which would look like that. It's a bit hard with a big bolt on the way there, but never mind. Um, it's not, it's not the prettiest sounding chord in the world, and to be honest, I never ever do it. Why would you? So I do a kind of mini me version which would be. Which would be that, OK, that is how I'd use it in a real world situation. That kind of stuff. So to get that we're gonna bar on the 9th fret. And then we're gonna put, in this case I'll use my ring finger, whatever feels comfortable for you on this D note. And that would be an E7, and I'm gonna hit the 6 string there. Should say in a lot of these videos we're gonna be going between pick and fingers, or just pick or just fingers, alright, so here there's a perfect introduction to it. Hit the 6 string of your thumb, and then kind of play the top 4 strings. At the same time. Or you can do it to pick. Thought I'd better just say that. Uh, so we've got E shape. D shape. C shape A shape. Mini me G shape. And then we'll be back to the E shape with the full bar cord. Or you might just want That kind of idea. On the 12th fret, on the, uh, well, you kind of played all the 4 strings on the 12th fret. And then my second finger's on this uh G. And I've got E7 now, a game, which would be like that. So, try and get used to all those shapes. Now obviously these are all movable in different keys, for the moment we're doing the Q of E. But it's so, so important to get these down, um, because it's a big, big thing when it comes to acoustic blues. Trust me, alright, so have fun with that, get that down and I'll see you in the next video.