E7 chord on guitar
E dominant 7th
E7 is a dominant 7th chord with four notes: E, G#, B and D. Learn it first as an open shape: four 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
- Index on the G string, fret 1
- Middle on the A string, fret 2
The number in each note head is the finger: 1 index, 2 middle, 3 ring, 4 pinky.
Strings to skip
Nothing to skip: strum all six strings.
- Shape
- Open shape
- Fingers
- Twoindex and middle
- Strings played
- All six
- Open strings
- Fourthe low E, D, B and high e strings
- Lowest note
- E2the root, on the low E string
- Frets
- 0 2 0 1 0 0low E to high e, x means skip it
The notes in E7
- Eroot
- G#major third
- Bperfect fifth
- Dminor seventh
A dominant 7th chord is a major chord with a minor seventh added on top. G# is the major third, four frets above the root. B is the perfect fifth, seven frets above the root. D is the minor seventh, ten frets above the root.
String by string
- high e string: E4root
- B string: B3perfect fifth
- G string: G#3major third
- D string: D3minor seventh
- A string: B2perfect fifth
- low E string: E2root
Every note of E7 is in this shape, some of them twice.
Another way to play it
- Barre at fret 7x 7 9 7 9 7Root on the A string.
Related chords
All 111 chords in the chartStrum it and Lark tells you if it is right.
Open the chord detector, play E7 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.