A7 Guitar Chord

A tense chord that "wants" to resolve up a fourth. Essential for blues, jazz, rock'n'roll and funk. The added minor seventh creates characteristic tension.

Guitar

Strings X–0–2–0–2–0

How to play the A7 chord on guitar

Read the string pattern X–0–2–0–2–0 from the low E string to the high E string. Numbers in the pattern are frets; numbers in the colored dots are left-hand fingers. X means a muted string and 0 means an open string.

6th string (low E) Do not play

5th string (A) Play open

4th string (D) Fret 2 · middle finger

3rd string (G) Play open

2nd string (B) Fret 2 · ring finger

1st string (high E) Play open