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Alternate Fingerings for F7

Alternate fingerings for F7 in C tuning. The same fingerings would apply to C7 in G tuning and G7 in D tuning.

Publisher: Curt Sheller Publications Authors(s): Curt Sheller
Category: Chords Instrument: Ukulele
Subjects(s): ChordsIntermediateAdvancedFingeringJazzAlternate
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Alternate Fingerings for F7

Alternate fingerings for F7 in C tuning. The same fingerings would apply to C7 in G tuning and G7 in D tuning.

These are taken from the Ukulele Chord of the Week lessons presented 2007.

Chord Fingering (Strings 4 3 2 1)

  • 2 3 1 4 - The most common fingering.
  • T 3 1 4 - I saw Pops Bayless of Shorty Long play it this way.

The F7 chord is a seventh chord (shown in "C" Tuning gCEA or GCEA). Sometimes inaccurately referred to as a dominant seventh chord.

Seventh chord A seventh chord is a chord or triad which has a note the seventh above the tonic in it. In its earliest usage, the seventh was introduced solely as an embellishing or non-chord tone. The seventh destabilized the triad, and allowed the composer to emphasize movement in a given direction. As time progressed and the collective ears of the western world became more accustomed to dissonance, the seventh was allowed to become a part of the chord itself, and in some modern music, and jazz in particular, nearly every chord is a seventh chord. The next natural step in composing tertian chords is to add the note a third above the fifth of the chord, or the seventh of the chord.

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