In this set of tutorials, instructor Danny Grady demonstrates 7th chords formed by placing the root notes on the 5th string. In addition, he outlines how to create suspensions within those chord voicings.

Video Transcription

Danny Grady: Okay, so now that we can do majors and minors from the fifth string, let's learn how to do some seven and some suses using the fifth string as our root. Again the fifth string is A and the same logic applies. All natural notes are whole step apart with the exception of B and C and E and F which are both the half step apart from each other. So using that logic we have A and go up a whole step to B, half step to C, C and D are whole step apart, D and E are whole step apart, and then E and F are half step apart. So, let's figure out a chord like say C7. We would go A, B, C, we have a root here on the fifth string F, C, then from there we are going to go bar the way down from the fifth string on down to the first string with your first finger, add your third finger to the fifth fret of the fourth string and you are pinky to the fifth fret of the second string and strum, and that chord is C7. If you were to take this down, take this root and bring it down, so that the root is now B. Your first finger would be bar and all the way across here on the second fret from the fifth string on down, your third finger would be at the fourth fret of the fourth string, pinky at the fourth fret of the second string, that now B7. Bring it down to root B-flat, we have B-flat seven. Come up here to D so that you have D7, then D-flat seven which is also the same as C-sharp seven, we just call it differently depending on what key you are using, and then you come up here to E, then you have E7, E-flat seven. Male Speaker: This is Long Train Runnin by The Doobie Brothers. The song is the key of G minor and standard tunning, in the fifth major we are going to go to a C minor seventh chord. So for this chord I grab my first finger at the eighth fret of the third string, my third finger on the tenth fret of the four string, and my fourth finger on the eleventh fret of the second string.