wmrazek - Posted - 08/30/2010:  08:54:31

This is a totally newbie question. I'm stuck and need help...

How do you play B7? I'm learning the song Old Home Place and there's a B7 in there and I just can't find what to play ... In this song the chord changes G -> B7 -> C is so beautiful and it gives it a special sound. Í want to make that sound correct otherwise it doesn't sound like Old Home Place.

Any ideas? I appreciate all help.

otdobro - Posted - 08/30/2010:  11:10:39

4th fret strings 1 & 2 works for me....

badger - Posted - 08/30/2010:  11:45:58

I usually play any combination of the 4th fret notes that appeal to me, and let the 7th be assumed. If I'm soloing and want that flatted 7th note (the A), I'll grab it at the 3rd string, 2nd fret or elsewhere, depending on where I find myself.

wmrazek - Posted - 08/30/2010:  12:59:57

Ok, thanks! I think I got it now. It sounds ok even without the 7th

MissouriPicker - Posted - 08/30/2010:  16:22:17

Another thing you can do is slide into that 7th note.......This stuff has got to be easy, especially when I feel I can give a half-way intelligent answer.


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Slideman1939 - Posted - 08/31/2010:  18:24:36

Slideman suggests: after playing the G chord, go to 4th string (low D) and slide up to the 4th fret and do a backwards roll on strings 1-2-3, and then proceed into C chord at the fifth fret. That slide from the low D 4th string up to high D 1st string (barred at the 4th) is a nice "lead in sound" in this particular song.Thumb pick it hard as you start the slide up to the B position at the fourth fret.

MarkinSonoma - Posted - 09/02/2010:  16:39:10

Good answers, but I'm surprised nobody mentioned the classic rule: To get a reasonably good sounding "impression" of a 7 chord, play strings 2 & 1, or strings 5 & 4 three frets above the major chord.

A B7 consisists of the following notes: B D F# A. Of course the B major chord lies on the 4th fret. On the seventh fret in dobro Open G you have the D major chord which consists of the notes D F# A. If you play strings 2 & 1, or strings 5 & 4, you are playing the 5 & 7 notes in the B7 chord, the notes being F# & A.

I need rules like this to keep me from "getting lost in traffic."

Edited by - MarkinSonoma on 09/02/2010 16:42:52