Seventh Chords Guitar Lesson for Beginners [12 Bar Blues Funk Rhythm]

This seventh chords guitar lesson for beginners will show how to play a 12 bar blues funk rhythm.

Blues Guitar Lessons for Beginners Playlist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVNcy...

Seventh Chords Guitar Lesson for Beginners [12 Bar Blues Funk Rhythm]
0:00 Lesson Preview/Performance
1:09 Lesson Intro
1:23 Bars 1-4
3:34 Bars 5-8
4:30 Bars 1-8 (slow review)
5:32 Bars 9-12
7:58 Verse 1 (slow review bars 1-12)
9:04 Seventh Chord Voicings
11:07 Bars 9-14 (verse 2)
12:26 Ending
13:16 Verse 2 (slow review bars 1-14)
14:21 Moveable Progressions
15:20 Lesson Review

Seventh (7th) Chords Guitar
When compared to major chords, seventh (7th) chords have more an ‘off-center’ or ‘funky’ sound. Many Blues, Funk, and Jazz songs are based on seventh chord progressions. This blues guitar lesson for beginners features seventh (7th) chords being used exclusively as the three primary chords in a 12-bar funk rhythm progression.

Seventh (7) Chords Guitar Lesson for Beginners
The unique makeup of a seventh chord (7th) allows for many seventh chord voicings on guitar. Each of the seventh (7th) chord shapes in this blues guitar lesson for beginners are moveable. An alternate chord voicing for a seventh chord with a sixth-string bass note is used in this blues funk rhythm guitar lesson. By extending the fourth/‘pinky’ finger to fret an additional note on the second string, a variation in tone or color is added while the chord still remains a seventh (7th) chord. For example, the same four notes that makeup an ‘A7' chord (‘A’, ‘C sharp’, ‘E’, ‘G’) would be found in both the standard and alternate seventh chord shapes.

Funk Rhythm Guitar Lesson for Beginners
The funky rhythm is established with a ‘ down... (chop)... up-down-up-down... (chop)’ strum pattern. The ‘chop’ effect (notated with x’s) is a combination of palm-muting the strings while striking at them to get a percussive, ‘scratchy’ sound. Each ‘chop’ represents a beat, very much like a drummer keeping time with a snare drum.

12 Bar Blues Rhythm Guitar
This seventh (7th) chord progression is moveable, meaning the same chord changes can be shifted up or down the fretboard and played in other keys. For example, to play a funk rhythm progression in ‘F’, simply shift the same progression two frets higher.

Funk Rhythm Seventh Chords Guitar Lesson Review
Now in theory when you have a movable Blues Funk Rhythm progression you can play in any key, but on guitar it's simply not feasible to play too high up on the fretboard. With this funk rhythm progression, you have about six keys that you can play in now. If you review the next funk rhythm lesson, we now have an alternate approach that allows you to play in the remaining
six keys.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yqzJ...

How to Play 12 Bar Blues Funk Rhythm in any Key
With both funk rhythm put together, you can play a funk style progression in any key.
Once you have verses one and two memorized, the final step with this funk rhythm lesson is to go back to the beginning of the video and see if you can keep up with the lesson preview.

Paluzzi Guitar
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