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Location: Reno, NV | Whats your least favorite chord to play? You know, the ones that just don't feel like a human should be doing.
Im really new to guitar so I dont have a vast chordal knowledgebase. But that silly Bb Barre just aint right! |
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Location: NJ | I always have an aversion to Eb. |
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Location: Los Angeles | B and Bb or for that matter,any bar chord on a 12 string. |
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Location: SE Michigan | Something about G7 just rubs me the wrong way. |
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Location: Yucaipa, California | ..umbilical... |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | I've gotten really good at capoing and transcribing anything with a Bb or Eb. |
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Location: Reno, NV | Originally posted by Brian T:
Something about G7 just rubs me the wrong way. I agree.. Lousy feeling and lousy sounding. |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | I absolutely agree on B♭ and B, so I almost always play them as barre chords unless I don't want or need the F or F♯ notes (quite rare), in which event they become simple one-finger chords. I started playing D with only two fingers very early on, so a four-fingered E♭ on five strings eventually came relatively easy, although probably not technically the right or preferred method. I'm looking forward to reading other comments on this thread. |
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Location: PDX | A certain voicing of a m7 where the root is on the 6th sting, the third is on the 3rd string, the fifth is on the 2nd string and the seventh is on the 1st string.
Not impossible to fret but darn hard to hit clean on tempo, for me at least.
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | My favourite would be a 1937 Cord Convertable.
But all chords have their time and place.
G7? Just let it hang a bit before you resolve to a C and you'll like it a whole lot more.
Bb? Most flat keys suck to play on guitar...with the possible exception of Eb, the non-singers key. (everyone can sing in Eb! You sing flat naturally? You're halfway there!)
Aug6th's, those I have a spot of bother with. Fortunately, they don't come up much. |
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Location: the BIG Metropolis of TR | I have trouble making a Bm7-5 clean and with speed 'cause of my fat fingers.....
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.....Hey Paul,(moody p.i.) Which of your three chords is your least favorite? ;) |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Dis |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | one of those crazy delightful sounding brazilian things |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | ...like me trying to make a three finger first position "A" |
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Location: East Tennessee | Bb and Eb
I tune down to D a use a capo.
So Eb becomes E with capo on the 1st fret.
I have a key transposing program so I can transcribe the chords to any key I want.
Anything played in the key of F, (which will usually include the dreaded Bb) can be played in G by removing the capo.
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Location: NJ | minor 7 flat 5 |
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Location: Omaha, NE | Thanks to a well broken finger back in high school, I really can't make the "A" shape bar chords like these:
E A D G B e
2 2 x x x 2
x x 4 4 4 x
Depending on how the voicing works, I usually just let the high e string get muffled. Or sometimes I'll play a fakey version like this:
E A D G B e
0 0 x x x 0
x x 4 4 4 x
If the song is in E Major, then that actually works pretty well most of the time.
Eb is not a problem once you get used to barring the "C" chord shape. But if a song has an Eb in it, it is probably flat happy all the way through, which usually means five minutes of absolutely uninterrupted barre chords, and my hand always cramps up.
But to answer the question, my least favorite chord is the wrong one. |
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Location: the BIG Metropolis of TR | Originally posted by Jeff W.:
...like me trying to make a three finger first position "A" ....'Zxactly! Even playing my Folklore it gets cramped trying to get All my fat fingers stuffed together and then try and make each note play cleanly! |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | then try a clean 5th fret A7 (add most anything)...Oy!!
EDIT: "clean 5th fret Am" To: "A7"
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Location: Tucson, AZ | Originally posted by Jeff W.:
Dis ...ah, the "famous" DIS-CHORD! |
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Location: Chicago | I can't make any A-shape with a barre. That's my least favorite chord, and there's a lot of them... :( |
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Location: San Bernardino, California | Minor-Major 9th. x,7,5,8,7,7 |
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Location: PDX | For you folks with the three finger A chord problem -- assuming you are trying to i,m,a on strings 4,3,2 -- try m,i,a instead. May help
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Location: Hicksville, NY | Mainly I have trouble with Eb, B and Bb. I can't even do barre chords where the ring finger press strings 2-4 simultaneously. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | I have to advocate some wisdom here, however reluctantly, imparted to me by my friend, Schroeder:
"If three strings make a chord, Why do you strum six?
...the implication of this philosophy leads to jazz |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Originally posted by gh1:
For you folks with the three finger A chord problem -- assuming you are trying to i,m,a on strings 4,3,2 -- try m,i,a instead. May help
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gh1 Try as I might, I can only "barre" an 'A' |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Three fingers for an A chord?
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Whichever you can bend easiest. Major bonus!..it leaving many fingers free for flailing a other strings. |
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Location: Wooster, Ohio | The chord is piano's gift to guitar E flat. I know I can capo one and transpose but usual when I am playing praise band easier to just bar it up high and suffer through.
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | that's wud I'm saying, Greg....
I can do all those.... bend all but the last ;) |
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Location: the BIG Metropolis of TR | I just cheat and modify the chord.... ;)
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Originally posted by Jeff W.:
that's wud I'm saying, Greg....
I can do all those.... bend all but the last ;) Whoops. That should read "Phil" not "Greg" ... My apologies Mike. |
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| I might be way off base but it works for me. play all first postion chords without the index finger.. Only use middle ring and pinky unless you need it. . The nut is basically your index finger so playing an A-maj is easier as well as B-maj if you get use to it.. More room cause those fingers aint so fat. Heres the only pic I could find with the old index in the air???
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| Originally posted by Jeff W.:
I have to advocate some wisdom here, however reluctantly, imparted to me by my friend, Schroeder:
"If three strings make a chord, Why do you strum six?
...the implication of this philosophy leads to jazz Lawksamercy momma, he was listening. :eek: |
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Location: Houston, Texas | Originally posted by luthier444:
I might be way off base but it works for me. play all first postion chords without the index finger.. Only use middle ring and pinky unless you need it. . The nut is basically your index finger so playing an A-maj is easier as well as B-maj if you get use to it.. More room cause those fingers aint so fat. Heres the only pic I could find with the old index in the air???
That's good advice, its the only way I can go from A5 to Amaj. Otherwise, its a one finger A for me, which, I guess, really is poor technique. |
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| Its only bad technique if you need the open E.. I need my E MAN!!!!!!! But on electric of cource its a whole nother ball game.. |
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Location: south east Michigan | E-flat
Definate buzz kill. |
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Location: closely held secret | B m sus4 flat5
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Brian, try playing a g7 like this and see if you like it better...
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Location: San Bernardino, California | Bm sus4 b5 = Bdim add4 or maybe Bdim add11 |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Now you realize that those of us that play Praise/Worship gigs have a preference for Gsus, right?
M(I'll be in my room)Woody |
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Location: San Bernardino, California | I know more about how to build chords then play them. |
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Location: Canton (Detroit), MI | My least favorite chord???? The one I just messed up on..... :D
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Location: North Carolina | I like 'em all. |
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| C#/Dflat...or most anything in that key (except when I have to play the entire arrangment of classical gas, where the trumpets come in..) |
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I didn't know Spock played six-string? :cool: |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Originally posted by Old Applause Owner:
[QB] My least favorite chord???? The one I just messed up on..... :D
I will eventually get Bm without looking!
Favorites: E, Em, E7. I can really ring them out. |
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Location: Tucson, AZ | ...hint: Bm7 (at the nut) looks suspiciously "just" like middle 4-string E11, ie:
E|---- x
Bo---- R
G|-o-- 7
Do---- m3
A|-o-- R
E|-@-- 5 (optional, contra-bass note)
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Whats your least favorite chord..