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Topic: Teaching the G7 chord (Read 2525 times)

keyofc

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Teaching the G7 chord

on: May 25, 2010, 08:39:55 AM

For beginners, I find teaching the G7 is complicated since it's not laid out like a 7th and they
are not used to inversions yet.

How do you all teach the G7 chord in a simple way?
Or do you wait until they know inversions?

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pianorosa

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Re: Teaching the G7 chord

Reply #1 on: May 25, 2010, 03:43:13 PM

Yesterday, my student was asking about the G7 chord too. I showed her that the 7 is the F and I showed her in the root position: G B D F. I've also taught her some triad inversions so I showed her a neat way to play G7 with the RH:

1. Put RH in triad position like she normally does: G B D
2. Move the thumb one step down: F B D

In this way, her thinking is still in the root position with thumb moving down.
This is very helpful for her to think of the 7th Chords as a beginner.

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