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Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada | What's your favorite "pretty" chord - lush, sweet, serene? No edgy 7 flat 10 ones allowed! Two of my favorites:
1) E and B open, G at 6th fret, D at 4th, A and E at 5th.
2) Barre all at the 4th fret, B and low E at the 5th.
Obviously the second one can be played anywhere, and the first can be played in some other positions. |
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Location: Pacific Northwest Inland Empire | The open G, with the fingered D on the B string. Seems to fill a room nicely. |
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Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada | Yeah, I like that version of G; I always play it that way. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | I want to hear wich of the three chords Moody likes the best!
Been playing more 12 than 6 and I like the open chords in E. |
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Location: south east Michigan | Another vote for that modified G chord.
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Location: Fayetteville, NC | On the 12 String I love to hear the E Chord and move that chord-unbarred up the kneck. E-A-B.
It really Rings! I Just love the Sound. |
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Location: Rego Park, NY, | When I was younger there was Maria,Winnie,Lucy, Susan,etc. :D . Oh!! I forgot you meant chords. I have to get back to you on this one
:eek: ;) :p
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Location: south east Michigan | (sorry about the off topic, but Mr. Wong started it)
Okay...Winnie is from "Wonder Years", right?
Please tell us who the others are so we can get back on topic
Susan Dey? Lucy Lu?(woooo-hooo!)
Maria Schriver?(please say no)
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Location: Canton (Detroit), MI | OK, back to chords..... :)
My favorite "pretty" chord is Asus2, as used in "The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald".
The four open chords that Nancy Wilson uses on the break in "Love Alive" also are in there, too. I'd tell you what they are, but I don't have the music with me in IN(I'm not at home this week). They are all chords that you've probably never heard of.
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Location: 6 String Ranch | e6-open
a5-7th fret
d4-5th fret
g3-8th fret
b2-7th fret
e1-open
great chord to end a song with, kinda that Philip Marlow/Hellcasters feel to it. |
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Location: Midland, MI | W2, that hurts my fingers just looking at it. |
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Location: Freeport, IL | Roger,
That Asus2 is also the first chord in, "Nature's Way" by Spirit. Anyone remember that one?
Asus2 - G#sus4 (2x)
C#m7 - A - B - A (2x)
E - B - A
BAB ABAB (Nature's way, it's nature's way...)
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Location: Canton (Detroit), MI | I do remember it, but it's been awhile.....and I had no clue that Asus2 was the first chord!!!!
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Location: Indiana | I believe "The Flame" by Cheap Trick also starts with a sus2 (can't remember where), but I've always liked the way all the chords in that song sound. And I'm not really a big Cheap Trick fan.
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Location: San Bernardino, California | A7sus2sus4
x02433
also when switching back and forth from C/9 to G
332033, 320033
you just have to rock 2 fingers back and forth. |
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Location: Denton, Texas | In the Michael Smotherman tune "I'm Gonna Love You" is a chord that grabbed me the first time I heard it. Naturally it was on an Adamas, probably 12-string but sounds great on my Adamas II-6.
Bmsus2: Barre all at 2nd fret
D G at 4th fret
The tune is in key of D but this chord form can be moved up the neck depending on whatever key you're in. |
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Location: Rego Park, NY, | Skipkid,
Off topic. I am happy to say that I worked with Maria in Alexander's Department store when I was in High School. Winnie and Lucy were 2 girls that I met when I was in college.I had asked each of the out but nothing came of it. They are friends. Susan was a girl that worked in a local bank. Then there is my wife Pearl.
Believe it or not I actually took a picture that has Pearl, Winnie and Lucy together at a party. This picture was taken years before PhotoShop was invented. There are more interesting details but I will not discuss them here. Maybe at the next OFC Tour if anybody wants to know.
Hey Moody, How's that for detective work?
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Location: 6 String Ranch | try these
505500, 504500, x87970, 076780, 505500, 076780.
an addaptation of Delbert's "I want to love you". The other part os a D9 554555, up top a E9 776777. |
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Location: Scotland | These voicings of E A & B sound great and can really spice up a tired old 3-chord trick
E - 076400 or 079900 - Eadd9 024100
Aadd9 - X07600 or X011900
Bsus4 - X24400 or 799800 |
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Location: Omaha | Paul,
Here's another nice way to end something being played with that open E chord at the 7th/9th frets:
097900 - 079900
(You only have to switch your index and ring finger; keep your pinky on the G string at the 9th fret.)
cwk2,
Here's another disCHORDant chord to end with in that same position:
075670
Chris Proctor uses this one in a tune called "An Introspection" from many years ago...he walks it down, playing each chord as an arpeggio something like this:
075670 - 053450 - 031230 - 2X120X - XXXX3X - XXXXX0 (picking the 'D' and the 'E' notes at the end of the last arpeggio).
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Location: Omaha | And if you get tired of strumming "A Horse With No Name" like this:
022000 - 244200
you can do it like this:
022032 - 244222
works well if you have two acoustics playing together - or not! I sometimes switch between the two patterns between verse and chorus - but hey, what do I know how it's supposed to really be played, and I'm sure not too many people care (i.e., have it in their repertoire!)
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Location: Denton, Texas | Paul T.
Must be a typo on your second A add9 :
x011900 ? That's a heck of a stretch, and on a 7-string guitar no less. I hurt myself on that one. :) I like everything else.
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Location: San Bernardino, California | Probably x,0,11,9,0,0 |
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Your favorite pretty ones