Your favo(u)rite guitar chords

[Alistair]

What are your favourite chords on the guitar? By this I mean what chords do you use a lot, possibly too much, in your music? Yes, I know it's a stupid question and it depends, but it's Tuesday for goodness sake.

It would be good if you could draw a diagram too so I might learn some new ones.

Mine is Amaj7

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[tgrover]

this is mine. Dunno what it is. D with an f sharp

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[Steve]

What are your favourite chords on the guitar? By this I mean what chords do you use a lot, possibly too much, in your music? Yes, I know it's a stupid question and it depends, but it's Tuesday for goodness sake.

It would be good if you could draw a diagram too so I might learn some new ones.

Mine is Amaj7

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I think that's an Amaj13? Amaj7 would be without the F#

[Steve]

Mine would have to be Gmaj7

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[Steve]

this is mine. Dunno what it is. D with an f sharp

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That's what it is. This is a great chord. I use it a lot when I play in A. If you slide it up 2 you can get this,

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Which is E Ab bass. You can play the open top E as well which adds to the interest! Great for power chords.

[Alistair]

I think that's an Amaj13? Amaj7 would be without the F#

We had this debate a while ago. I'm pretty certain that we established it as Amaj7. Amaj13 sounds better though.

Mine would have to be Gmaj7

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Er... what's the fingering?

[phantomengineer]

the last two songs i've written have been in D Suspended tuning, in which chords are very interesting.... Don't know the names of any of them, though

[Steve]

We had this debate a while ago. I'm pretty certain that we established it as Amaj7. Amaj13 sounds better though.

Er... what's the fingering?

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[hariossa]

Maj7 chords are for love songs!!!

anyway, what I use a lot are minor7 chords, and as I do with most chords I use a lot of inversions.

let's say that Fminor7 is made of: F (root), Ab (minor third), C (fifth), and Eb (minor seventh), so you can play them right away using F as the bass note, but you also can use Ab, C or Eb on the bass note.

this is an F minor7 chord played in 2nd inversion, with the fifth on the bass, which I use a lot, the F on the 1st string can be played using finger 1 as a barre, and creates a nice tension between the root (F) and the minor seventh (Eb).

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for Maj7 I use this a lot:

(don't play the 6th and 1st strings)

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root is on the 5th string, and as I'm not using open strings I can play it anywhere on the neck.

This is a nice E Maj 7/9 chord that I don't use that much, but it sounds really good:

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Edited October 12, 2005 by hariossa

[Rudi]

Im having trouble with these diagrams. If I understand Als 1st chord shape correctly (probably not), it is comprised of E A E G# C# F# (A maj 7 + 6)

I dont think I have favourite chords, but I use 9-7 (ninth minus seventh) chords both major & minor sometimes.

Emin 9-7

If you havnt guessed. This is a '2nd', ie: in the scale(s) of E, its an F#.

The F# being the only upper partial.

Played open it is Em (2 finger version) but with F# played instead of E (D string 4th fret)

Its nice to end a minor song with. This is an attempt at a diagram>

ebf#gbe

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[hariossa]

ebf#gbe

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hey! nice diagram

that's a pink floyd chord, try to play it from high to low and you'll find yourself in the dark side of the moon!!

[Rudi]

hey! nice diagram

that's a pink floyd chord, try to play it from high to low and you'll find yourself in the dark side of the moon!!

Oh Yeah !