Open Position D7 and Its Movable Form

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This movable form chord, based on the open position chord and can be transposed up and down the fingerboard using the root of the chord and the transposition chart to the right.

The functional range of a chord up the fingerboard of your ukulele depends on the ukulele's size (soprano, concert or tenor), the number of frets to the body (10, 12, 14, etc) and whether you have a cut-away for access to higher frets. Not all chords can be transposed a complete octave (12 frets).

Movable form chords can be used along with open position chords. As you learn more movable form chords you'll have a variety of alternate voicings for any given chord.

Transposing Movable Form Chords

These Ukulele Chord of the Week lessons use the roots of a chord to transpose to different keys. Note what string the root is on or would be on if not present in the chord's voicing.

Chord Tones

• 1 - Root or letter name of the chord - NOTE: This voicing does not contain the root of the chord. This is OK as the root or fifth of a 7th chord does not have to be present to get the color of the chord.
• 3 - the third (major third) of the chord
• 5 - the fifth (perfect fifth) of the chord
• b7 - the flat seventh of the chord

The chord tones come from the scale degrees of a major scale based on the root of the chord. Generically a seventh chord's chord tones are the 1, 3, 5, b7 scale degrees of a major scale and in the case of a D7 chord the chord tones are: D, F#, G, C. And specifically for the D7 voicing of this lesson the chord tones are: A, C, F#, A (Root is not present in this voicing)

Knowing the notes or chord tones of the chord can lead to deriving other chords from known chords. This is what we have been doing when creating the additional chords each week.

Creating Chords from Known Chords