This is a lesson about “blues chords”! If there is such a thing? In this lesson I show you four different chords which are essential to know for blues players. This lesson will unlock the fretboard for you and develop your blues rhythm guitar. It will help you to navigate on the fretboard and it will lay a foundation for you to improve on your soling skills.
When we play a standard 12-bar-blues-progression, we usually use dominant 7th chords. For example, a twelve-bar-blues progression in the key of E consists of: E7, A7 and B7.
These three chords are “dominant 7th chords”. So in this lesson I show you how you can play those dominant 7th chords in four different ways across the whole fretboard.
What I’m really talking about in this lesson are the root position and the three inversions of the dominant 7th chord.
Why call the dominant 7th chord a blues chord? Well, since a typical 12-bar-blues-progression only consists of dominant 7th chords it feels appropriate to call them “blues chords”.
This is the reason why it’s so important to know this chord in and out over the fretboard, if you want to master the blues. Super important stuff to know, I would argue 😉

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