Guitar Chord

Carrying on our series of 12 Dominant 7th Guitar Chords you should know we move onto inversions on the middle four guitar strings. The next four chords all feature the same notes: G, B, D and F but in different inversions.


This inversion has the chords root note on the D string of the guitar (this is shown by the black box in the diagram). The previous inversions weve looked at on the top four strings have a thinner tone than these inversions on the middle four guitar strings. Those inversions can be useful for funk guitar amongst other things, these chords have a slightly fuller tone than the inversions on the top four strings.

Tune in tomorrow for the next installment of our series on 12 dominant 7th guitar chords you should know.

Yesterdays guitar chord of the day post started a new mini-series of guitar chords. Today well continue our mini-series of 12 Dominant 7th Guitar Chords you should know, with our second dominant 7th guitar inversion.

This chord and the next two chords are all played on the top four strings of the guitar.


This inversion is in root position. Thats to say, it has the root note of the chord as the lowest note. This is a G7 chord but try moving this around to other positions too.

Check back in tomorrow when well be continuing our series of 12 dominant 7th guitar chords you should know.

Were very nearly at the end of our mini-series 12 Dominant 7th Guitar Chords every guitarist should know. This G7 inversion has its root on the A string of the guitar as indicated by the black box on the chord diagram.


The notes of G7 are G, B D and F, this inversion uses them in this order:

• D (the 5th)
• G (the root note)
• B (the 3rd)
• F (the b7th)

We have just one more inversion to go in our series of Dominant 7th guitar chords, tune in tomorrow for the very last inversion of this series at Guitar Chord of the Day.

Continuing our series of Dominant 7th Guitar chords, today we have the last of our inversions with notes on the middle four strings of the guitar.


This inversion has its root note on the G string and uses the notes of the G7 chord in this order:

• B (the 3rd)
• F (the b7th)
• G (the root note)
• D (the 5th)

Know weve covered  8 different inversions of G7, make sure you can play all of the Dominant 7th inversions weve looked at and played so far. Practice playing through blues progressions in different keys without changing position using different inversions of G7, C7 and D7. Try playing blues progressions in other keys too.

Tomorrow well start the final leg of our mini-series on Dominant 7th chords and look at inversions on the bottom four strings of the guitar. Check back then for another guitar chord of the day.

Today were starting a new mini series on 4 string dominant 7th chords. Well cover 12 different inversion of these dominant 7th chords for guitar. These are great chords to learn, remember and use... why?

• Youll be able to able to play any dominant 7th chord in any area of the neck. Chord changes sound better when they flow with good voice leading.
• You can easily modify these chords to make minor 7th, major 7th, half diminished, altered, 9th chords and more
• These chords are great for blues, funk, jazz and pop but can be used anywhere.
• Learning and using these will improve your musicianship and make you a better guitarist.

Each of these chords is played on four adjacent strings. The first guitar chords in our series will be played on the top 4 strings. So heres our first inversion:


This chord is a G7 and has its root note on the 3rd fret of the E string, but you can easily move it to other frets to transpose it.

Dominant 7th chords use the 1, 3, 5 and b7 notes of the major scale.
For a G7 chord, this is G, B, D and F.

Tune in tomorrow for the next in our series of 12 dominant 7th chords you should know.

Just for a change we have another Dominant 7th guitar chord today :) Carrying on our series of Dominant 7th chords we move to the bottom four strings of the guitar. Once you have all 12 dominant 7th guitar chords under your belt, youll have the foundations of a really strong harmonic understanding of the guitar.


Todays inversion uses the bottom 4 strings of a common guitar inversion based on an E barre chord. It uses the notes of the G7 chord in this order:

• G (the root note)
• D (the 5th)
• F (the b7th)
• B (the 3rd)

These inversions with their notes on the bottom 4 guitar strings have a lot heavier, fuller sound than the inversions on the middle or top 4 strings of the guitar. Start incorporating this chord into your practice and mixing it up with the other Dominant 7th guitar inversions youve learned already.

Tune back tomorrow as we move towards the end of our miniseries on 12 Dominant 7th Guitar Chords every guitarist should know.