A7 chord on guitar
A dominant 7th
A7 is a dominant 7th chord with four notes: A, C#, E and G. Learn it first as an open shape: three open strings and two fingers on the frets. Below: where each finger goes, which strings to skip and one more way to play it.
Strum it and Lark tells you if it is right. The chord detector is free and listens through your mic.
How to play it
- Middle on the D string, fret 2
- Ring on the B string, fret 2
The number in each note head is the finger: 1 index, 2 middle, 3 ring, 4 pinky.
Strings to skip
Skip the low E string and strum from the A string down.
- Shape
- Open shape
- Fingers
- Twomiddle and ring
- Strings played
- FiveA, D, G, B and high e
- Open strings
- Threethe A, G and high e strings
- Lowest note
- A2the root, on the A string
- Frets
- x 0 2 0 2 0low E to high e, x means skip it
The notes in A7
- Aroot
- C#major third
- Eperfect fifth
- Gminor seventh
A dominant 7th chord is a major chord with a minor seventh added on top. C# is the major third, four frets above the root. E is the perfect fifth, seven frets above the root. G is the minor seventh, ten frets above the root.
String by string
- high e string: E4perfect fifth
- B string: C#4major third
- G string: G3minor seventh
- D string: E3perfect fifth
- A string: A2root
- low E string: not played
Every note of A7 is in this shape, some of them twice.
Another way to play it
- Barre at fret 55 7 5 6 5 5Root on the low E string.
Related chords
All 111 chords in the chartStrum it and Lark tells you if it is right.
Open the chord detector, play A7 and Lark names the chord it hears, with the notes in it. In the app, the chord book has all 111 chords, string by string.