Superimposing Chord Ideas For Dominant 7 Chords on Guitar

Dooood... would you ever think about hooking up with Brian of Active Melody, for a guest spot on a guitar video? I love his on-line guitar lessons! Wondering why you and Brett and Ford T aren't joining forces with Brian to inspire the on-line guitar community with Brian showing up for some gee-tar goodness? - Kent

Brian is a Nashville guitar teaching institution. Would be super fun for us guitar hobbyists to see the Nashville community coalesce by adding Brian to the mix. - Kent

Bring us back a little Island flavored stuff and please match you verbal and guitar levels 'cause I listen and watch sometimes at the crack 'a dawn or the middle of the night and don'wanna distiob a certain lady's beauty sleep... What? ...afraid of some little girl ?

Guthrie, you have brought new life to this old picker’s playing. You are such an inspiration to so many pickers out here during these insane times we are living in. God bless and take care brother. 🙏🙏🙏

Guthrie's back, and turns on the light.

Brilliant lesson - the key I've been looking for to unlock what I've been hearing all my life but unable to translate to the fingerboard. Would love to take a lesson with you someday soon.

Thanks Guthrie! keep it up dude!

Cool ideas! great stuff, thanks!

your style is very latin ...I always heard that in your playing

Good to see you back. I really like your videos.

Great video. Before I knew it was called the mixolydian mode, I used to call it the Jerry Garcia scale! He used it all the time. Love your playing.

You sound great man!!!!!!

Totally love your playing and appreciate your tutelage...🤘

Some of that walking line reminds me of what I'd hear a horn player do...

Happy Birthday! Guthrie! Have a great vacation!

It works because Em7, Gmaj7 and A7 are all diatonic chords in the key of Dmaj. They all have the same key signature and are all D Maj scale just starting on a different note.

This is a great lesson. Need to watch it again. At 0.25 speed next time! Kidding but this is something I noticed when trying to play some Santana-esque latin licks, Am and D9 basically have all the same notes. I don't know what fingering he was using for Gmaj7 but that was super cool too. Guthrie knows how to simplify seemingly difficult concepts.

Fantastic, man. It really makes sense when you think about it. Now to let it all soak in....

Pls- which type of tele ids that. But looks wider than usual. Ty!

Killer. Appreciate ya

this is a game changer fs

Thanks for sharing! You are just sparkling inspiring! 🤟

That’s a big first name to live up to, kidding man, your playing is awesome !!

Great lesson and Happy Birthday.

Incredible concepts Guthrie. There’s my next 12 months gone just working on this idea...Great to see you back. Looking lean and mean man. Cheers Marty from Melbourne🇦🇺

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This sounds so good the way you use it. I’ve been playing Dorian over chords which is the same as the the minor 5th of the chord but I didn’t get your feeling. Thanks Guthrie

Hey Guthrie, this is excellent as I’m working hard with the dominant 7th Scale, wow ! super imposing minor /major 7 chords/ ideas really does take it to another level!
Thanks again for all your input & hard work - see you soon on ArtistWorks once again !

Great!!!

I discovered you last week through Mr Papa. Your perspective of seeing the guitar and teaching is so amazing and inspiring. Just signed up for ArtisrWorks as well to follow your country course (even though that is not my genre). Thanks for sharing your wisdom.

Another great lesson!

Not like I'm a student of Django's playing, but I have looked into it a little bit. I noticed, over an A7 chord, for example, he would play a Gmin or Gmin6 arpeggio. Don't know how that fits in theoretically, but the G of the Gmin is the flat 7 of A7, the Bb of the Gmin is the flat 9 of the A7 (which really gives it that Django sound.), also the 6 of Gmin is E, which is in the A7 chord. Crazy. Guthrie, have you ever studied Django's music? His soloing seems to be very much based on chord shapes. Very sophisticated chord shapes, but I think similar to your approach.

Such a great player,

Awesome playing great lesson thanks 🎸👍

You gained a new fan! Rock!

Really great!! All of these little lessons and vids just all go together so well. Really no matter what order I catch these in man. Just really learn a lot from ya. So I know I don’t speak for myself here, when I say I appreciate you taking the time.

We all need GT’s hustle. I feel like this man is a worker.

So would superimposing a 4 dom over a minor chord work as well?

Love this video! One little thing that helped substitutions make sense for me is thinking of the dominant chord in the context of the major scale. They’re always V chords. So G7’s parent key is C, C7’s is F, etc. Knowing that, any arpeggio from the parent key can be a substitution. The major7 from a step down (i.e., the IV from the parent key) is so dope though. Basically all the upper extensions plus the 7th

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Please reach out to me so we can discuss. Thanks

Guthrie you sound like Charlie Christian in this video

I’ve watched this several times every few months and now I finally understand it. It’s sort of mind blowing.

Youre so good man. SOOOOO Great

E minor 7 Is the same notes as A7 just the upper extensions. Love your stuff.

If people know there modes. Over A7 use Mixo BUT over D7 play A Dorian = D mixolydian

Love it. I keep coming back to this every time my mixolydian improves 🔥🔥🔥😎. Thanks GT! Just sounds so beautiful when you get it down. Just wish someone would curate these, took me 20 mins to find it - 😝

If maybe you weren't quite ready a couple of years ago when he first put this out, take a listen now. Maybe your ears and fingers are now more familiar with what he's saying and doing. Maybe even slow down the video in a few places? But folks, never doubt that these approaches and licks are incredibly valuable gems from a true master virtuoso and a fine man.

I just pulled up an A7 vamp backing track and applied this and holy shit it is freakin' cool. I don't know how you figure this stuff out but it is powerful. Thank you so much for sharing. I love you and have hit the tip jar.