# D7, the D dominant 7 guitar chord

D7 is tense and jangly and pulls hard toward G, so you’ll meet it constantly in folk and country cadences. Its triangle of fingers points the opposite way from D, which fools muscle memory at first. Strum from the D string down and listen for the high E.

D7

## How to play it

- Index finger on the B string (2nd), 1st fret.
- Middle finger on the G string (3rd), 2nd fret.
- Ring finger on the high E string (1st), 2nd fret.
- Let the open D string (4th) ring.
- Don't strum the low E string (6th) and A string (5th). They stay silent in this shape.

## Changes to practice

Holding D7 still is the easy part. Songs need you to _arrive_ at it in rhythm, so in Strumhold you practice D7 as changes, alongside the rest of the Open 7ths set:

- [D7 ↔ E7](https://strumhold.com/chords/e-7/) D dominant 7 to E dominant 7 [Drill](https://strumhold.app/#/drill/pair/D.7.D~E.7.E)
- [D7 ↔ A7](https://strumhold.com/chords/a-7/) D dominant 7 to A dominant 7 [Drill](https://strumhold.app/#/drill/pair/A.7.A~D.7.D)
- [D7 ↔ G7](https://strumhold.com/chords/g-7/) D dominant 7 to G dominant 7 [Drill](https://strumhold.app/#/drill/pair/D.7.D~G.7.G)
- [D7 ↔ C7](https://strumhold.com/chords/c-7/) D dominant 7 to C dominant 7 [Drill](https://strumhold.app/#/drill/pair/C.7.C~D.7.D)

## Same root, different color

- [D](https://strumhold.com/chords/d-major/), D major
- [Dm](https://strumhold.com/chords/d-minor/), D minor
- [Dm7](https://strumhold.com/chords/d-minor-7/), D minor 7
- [Dmaj7](https://strumhold.com/chords/d-major-7/), D major 7

## Hear yourself get faster

Strumhold listens to your guitar through your device's mic, a headset, or a line-in from your audio interface. You drill a chord change to a metronome and it scores every single change. Free, no account, works offline.

[Drill D7 in the app](https://strumhold.app/#/drill/pair/D.7.D~E.7.E)