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Okay, now for our first seven chord. We'll do the E seven chord. This is one of those
that's very easy to see, that's why we'll start off with it. remember your E major chord,
form that first. Second fret of the A string with your second finger, third fret of the
D string. And first fret of the G gives you the E major. Now in the E major, you have
that E octave here. If you remove this octave you pick up your third finger, now you have
the open D string. Now this has become a seventh chord because the seventh scale degree, which
we'll get into when we do scales. D of the E major scale is now present in the chord.
It's a new note added to the chord. So it's still major chord, but it's a seven chord.
So we refer to it as E seven. Okay, this is also acts of the dominant chord. It's called
the dominant. It wants to lead from the five here, as a five-seven to an A major. So you
here it resolving. Try switching from E seven to A major. You really get the effect of the
E seven chord.