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Gaug7 Guitar Chord

Combines the tension of an augmented fifth with a dominant seventh. Typical of jazz and blues turnarounds — a chord with a strong pull toward resolution.

Guitar

Strings 3–X–3–4–4–3

How to play the Gaug7 chord on guitar

Read the string pattern 3–X–3–4–4–3 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) Fret 3 · index finger
5th string (A) Muted
4th string (D) Fret 3 · index finger
3rd string (G) Fret 4 · middle finger
2nd string (B) Fret 4 · ring finger
1st string (high E) Fret 3 · index finger

Other names for the Gaug7 chord

Other names: G augmented 7th, G+7

Music theory name: augmented seventh chord

Common name: G augmented seven chord

Notes and intervals in the Gaug7 chord

Note Interval
G Root
B Major 3rd
D# Augmented 5th
F Minor 7th

All variations

Open
3–2–1–0–0–1
Open
3–X–3–4–4–3
Fret 5
X–X–5–8–6–7
Fret 10
X–10–13–10–12–11

More chords with G as the root

The same chord type in other keys

Songs using Gaug7

Whisky, to je moje gusto
Yvetta Simonová