DescriptionC7 chord and alternative voicing for EADG (standard and all-fourths) tuning for six string guitar.png
English: In contrast, seventh chords require severe hand-stretching in standard tuning.
Kolb, 2005, Chapter 6: Harmonizing the major scale: Diatonic seventh chords, p. 37:
Kolb, Tom (2005) Music theory, Hal Leonard Guitar Method, Hal Leonard Corporation, pp. 1–104 ISBN: 0-634-06651-X.
For example, the C7 chord has notes on frets 3-8 in standard tuning (and all-fourths tuning). Consequently, seventh chords are rarely played in standard tuning.
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In their stead, standard-tuning uses "alternatively voiced" chords, which have the same notes but in different order (and perhaps in a different octave). An illustration shows a C7 chord (in standard tuning), which would be extremely difficult to play, and an "alternatively voiced" C7.
The alternative voicing of the C7 chord follows the first seventh-chord diagram of Denyer, 1992, "The harmonic guitarist: Seventh chords: The dominant seventh chords", p. 127
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