Seventh-Chord Inversions for Blues Guitar

Acoustic Guitar | October 1, 2006| | Copyright

Quadruple your chord palette by incorporating four-string seventh-chord shapes into your fingerstyle blues tunes.

A few years ago, I was looking for ways to get my blues playing out of a rut, when I came across a nifty idea for expanding my chord vocabulary: using dominant-seventh chord inversions. With this technique in your musical tool-kit, you can keep the tonal and melodic feel of the blues while at the same time expanding your chord palette, allowing you to increase the drama in your playing, Using these chords can get you out of a first-position rut. And once you become familiar with ...

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