Wok 2 Teck Chapter 3 Seventh Chords You've studied triad inversions both up and down the strings and across the stringsets. This also can apply to seventh chord inversion; however, itis not as easy to see as itis with triad shapes. We'll just look at seventh chord inversions in a vertical way and learn the shapes first. By this we mean vertical musical movement, allhough physically its more of a horizontal one on the guitar. The musical change in pitch is why we rele fo movement along the same strings as up (toward the body) or down the Iretboard (toward the headstock), ‘The combination wel start with isthe voicing 1~5-7-3, a chord in root position. f each note is moved up fo the next higher chord tone (and 7 moves up to 1), then we get the first inversion: 3-7-1-5 Repeating the process, we get the voicin 19 5-1-3-7 for the second inversion, and finally 7-3-5~1 for the third-inversion voicing, Memorize and practice the voicin 'g for each of the seventh chord types. Sing the bass note! Practice all four shapes on all possible roots, 4th-String Roots Starting Voicing 1~ F Major 7th x x a 12) ote F Dominant 7th : L OS to, eee) Hf we ie F Minor 704 no vane ie eccael re tom 1 aa F Minor 768) 6th-String Roots Starting Voicing 1~7-3-6 F Major 7th ‘ofr T on F Dominant 7th {e) ofr oye ro | Ht a xm x Minor 7h akon eile pac ae f a aut eX nx F Minor 7068) | a