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the D chord

Marion 16 Feb 03 - 09:42 AM
GUEST,unc bill 16 Feb 03 - 12:29 AM
Bobert 15 Feb 03 - 11:20 PM
Frankham 15 Feb 03 - 11:04 PM
GUEST,loqui 15 Feb 03 - 10:30 PM
BuckMulligan 15 Feb 03 - 09:32 PM
GUEST,sorefingers 15 Feb 03 - 09:25 PM
Cluin 15 Feb 03 - 06:56 PM
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Cluin 15 Feb 03 - 06:48 PM
GUEST,Mary 15 Feb 03 - 05:38 PM
53 16 Oct 02 - 05:52 PM
McGrath of Harlow 16 Oct 02 - 05:07 PM
GUEST,van lingle 16 Oct 02 - 03:36 PM
Glen Reid 16 Oct 02 - 10:51 AM
GUEST,Fred Miller 16 Oct 02 - 09:34 AM
McGrath of Harlow 15 Oct 02 - 07:37 PM
C-flat 15 Oct 02 - 06:12 PM
Bullfrog Jones 15 Oct 02 - 05:57 PM
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53 15 Oct 02 - 02:23 PM
Nerd 25 Jan 02 - 01:31 AM
GUEST 24 Jan 02 - 11:14 PM
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Townes 24 Jan 02 - 10:58 PM
Lonesome EJ 24 Jan 02 - 09:50 PM
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McGrath of Harlow 24 Jan 02 - 02:17 PM
Murray MacLeod 24 Jan 02 - 01:48 PM
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Subject: RE: the D chord
From: Marion
Date: 16 Feb 03 - 09:42 AM

Hi Guest Mary. If you found the guitar-playing tips in this thread helpful, there's a lot more where they came from in archived discussions. Have you come across this thread yet: Help for Pickers Permathread? It's full of playing tips and links to other threads where playing technique is discussed.

Good luck, Marion


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Subject: RE: the D chord
From: GUEST,unc bill
Date: 16 Feb 03 - 12:29 AM

Could the answer possibly be, anybody but a dulcimer player?


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Subject: RE: the D chord
From: Bobert
Date: 15 Feb 03 - 11:20 PM

Ahhh, heck with all that work. Just drop both E string to a D and have a ball. There ain't too many songs you can't play in that tuning, what ever it's called. (D Model?)

Don't slide real good but heck, you can play a D with one hand tied behind yer back...

Bobert


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Subject: RE: the D chord
From: Frankham
Date: 15 Feb 03 - 11:04 PM

In order to physically play the guitar do you have to be born with the right D 'n' A? (Please don't all groan at once).

Frank


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Subject: RE: the D chord
From: GUEST,loqui
Date: 15 Feb 03 - 10:30 PM

How do you play a chord on the whistle?


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Subject: RE: the D chord
From: BuckMulligan
Date: 15 Feb 03 - 09:32 PM

Why did you post this?


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Subject: RE: the D chord
From: GUEST,sorefingers
Date: 15 Feb 03 - 09:25 PM

Oh so that's how I should have been playing it, shucks now I need to
remove the nail and string off of my new Martin.

Also since D is so popular who likes to wallop out Sloop John B in the
key of D? and who does can you quickly show me how to make is really complicated with lots of weird chords?


Thankyou in anticipation.


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Subject: RE: the D chord
From: Cluin
Date: 15 Feb 03 - 06:56 PM

And Glen... that's actually a D Augmented, right?


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Subject: RE: the D chord
From: Cluin
Date: 15 Feb 03 - 06:53 PM

Whoops, sorry, McGrath. I misread your post and missed where you said the chord was moved up two frets. You were right. It's a F5th "power chord".

And for some reason I had a lot of extraneous capitals in my post...


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Subject: RE: the D chord
From: Cluin
Date: 15 Feb 03 - 06:48 PM

Not a diad, McGrath. The power chord would have only 2 notes, the tonic (1st note) and the dominant (5th note), in the F chord the notes F and C.

The F variation you refer to above is actually a Fsus2 chord Where the 3rd of the scale (A) is replaced by the 2nd (G). So neither a major or minor chord, as You said.

That Fsus2 chord is often used to replace the regular F in bluegrass tunes in the key of G (or even C) to keep a modal sound, especially since Clarence White and Tony Rice really popularized it.


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Subject: RE: the D chord
From: GUEST,Mary
Date: 15 Feb 03 - 05:38 PM

Threads like this are really helpful to new people interested in learning the instrument.
I thank all of you who answered the question with kindness.
Thats what impresses me about mudcat and there are many of us
who thanks Mudcat for the variety of questions pertaining
especially to the music lover.


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Subject: RE: the D chord
From: 53
Date: 16 Oct 02 - 05:52 PM

iT JUST SOUNDS GOOD WHEN YOU PLAY IT.


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Subject: RE: the D chord
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 16 Oct 02 - 05:07 PM

G without the B? (Fred Miller) A good way to do that is play an F with the thumb fretting the sixth string, slide it up two frets so its a G - and then you lift the middle finger, and play the G string open. Great sound, a G diad, neither major nor minor. (I gather it's what some people call a "power chord".)


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Subject: RE: the D chord
From: GUEST,van lingle
Date: 16 Oct 02 - 03:36 PM

Interesting thread Bob, I think some folks are just unfamiliar with your direct approach. One of the ways I play a D is to move a first position C chord up one step and I wind up fingering it like this:
i= A at 2nd fret 3rd string, m= D at 3rd fret 2nd string, r= F# at 4th fret 4th string, p (little finger)= D at 5th fret 5th string. Play this D, move same position up to an F# chord then up a half step to a G chord then walk it back down half a step at a time to an E chord and you've got Dock of the Bay. Comes in very handy on moving chords up the neck when fingerpicking. vl


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Subject: RE: the D chord
From: Glen Reid
Date: 16 Oct 02 - 10:51 AM

When changing from a D to a D7, I sometimes maintain the D shape,but fret the A string at the 3rd. fret with the pinkie.


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Subject: RE: the D chord
From: GUEST,Fred Miller
Date: 16 Oct 02 - 09:34 AM

I know a lot of D's, D is a friend of mine, but it was only recently that it occurred to me to do the two-finger D by barreing at the second fret, and putting the second finger on the third fret on the b-string. Sometimes that's handy.
    For some reason I've always liked to do first position G without a 3rd, 3xoo33, until I want the B to make a dramatic entrance. Anyway, PaulM, that lets you have an extra finger still to noodle around with, and it's easy for my fat finger to kill the a-string.


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Subject: RE: the D chord
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 15 Oct 02 - 07:37 PM

Of course with DADGAD it's easy enough to play a shape that gives you a D on all strings. Not that it would be a chord, but it's certainly a D. Or rather a DDDDDD.


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Subject: RE: the D chord
From: C-flat
Date: 15 Oct 02 - 06:12 PM

....or the all purpose Django jazz/blues chord...D with a flat9.


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Subject: RE: the D chord
From: Bullfrog Jones
Date: 15 Oct 02 - 05:57 PM

D augmented -- now THAT'S a chord!

BJ


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Subject: RE: the D chord
From: Amos
Date: 15 Oct 02 - 02:32 PM

Townes:

For general use, just slide that Am chord up to the third fret and you'll have your fast and easy Bm.

As for the rest of you ....Geeze Luise!!


A


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Subject: RE: the D chord
From: 53
Date: 15 Oct 02 - 02:23 PM

refresh


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Subject: RE: the D chord
From: Nerd
Date: 25 Jan 02 - 01:31 AM

I thought Spaw's achilles heel was his 127 pound schlong. That's quite a target! Seriouly, what the heck did Bob mean by that? In some circles that'd be a big compliment!


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Subject: RE: the D chord
From: GUEST
Date: 24 Jan 02 - 11:14 PM

If the key of "D" is the peoples key,

What is the Key of the Booojwahzeeee?


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Subject: RE: the D chord
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 24 Jan 02 - 11:00 PM

D---the People's Key!


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Subject: RE: the D chord
From: Townes
Date: 24 Jan 02 - 10:58 PM

'D' no wories but is there a quicker Bm it always slows me down . Townes


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Subject: RE: the D chord
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 24 Jan 02 - 09:50 PM

You know what Bob, you nailed Spaw right on his Achilles Heel : He cannot play a D chord to save his life. Oh sure, he'll try to pretend its not true, but that's why he can't play a single Buddy Holly tune! At least, without a capo he can't.


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Subject: RE: the D chord
From: catspaw49
Date: 24 Jan 02 - 02:20 PM

Yes Murray, I think that does help to explain the crappy programming. I get 200 channels and there ain't jackshit on!

Spaw


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Subject: RE: the D chord
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 24 Jan 02 - 02:17 PM

It makes a nice change sometimes to play it with the 1st string fretted on the fifth fret, and the 2nd and 3rd on the 7th. And the thumb over to fret the 6th string on the fifth fret too, if you feel like it.


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Subject: RE: the D chord
From: Murray MacLeod
Date: 24 Jan 02 - 01:48 PM

That link does explain it all, kat. I never knew before that Uranus rules television and computers. Figures, somehow. *G*

Murray


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Subject: RE: the D chord
From: Frankham
Date: 24 Jan 02 - 01:01 PM

D chord on the guitar with the sixth string tuned down to D below the E string has always sounded beautiful to me. Pete Seeger used this on Bells of Rhymney and Turn Turn as well as Living (Singing) In the Country.

I always thought the D chord was especially beautiful when accompanying "Down In The Valley". It's a great chord to learn to play first on guitar.

Frank


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Subject: RE: the D chord
From: katlaughing
Date: 24 Jan 02 - 12:04 PM

Mercury being retrograde explains it all!


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Subject: RE: the D chord
From: A Wandering Minstrel
Date: 24 Jan 02 - 10:33 AM

I can and also that really nice progression

D / Bm / G / C7 / A / D

and the two D variations I don't know the names of: the first is the D but with the top string hammer-off and the other is the D but fretting the 4th string at fret 3 instead of the third string


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Subject: RE: the D chord
From: Gary T
Date: 24 Jan 02 - 09:43 AM

I sometimes find it helpful or conventient to play a D chord with my index finger barring three strings on the second fret and my "tall man" finger hitting the B string on the third fret. When coming from or going to a B minor chord, those fingers can stay in place.


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Subject: RE: the D chord
From: DonMeixner
Date: 23 Jan 02 - 10:51 PM

Spaw,

You have a 127 lbs. of Pistol? Is that loaded weight or are you shooting blanks? Should we start calling you Tripod?

Don,

By the way. I play "D" the old three fingered way or more often lately by barring an "A" up 4. Not for any other reason that thats what my limited finger motion allows. Typically I'll play in "D" by capoing up two and playing "C" shapes. This is because I can't play "Bm" hardly at all in the conventional form. And I like those key "C" bass runs

Don


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Subject: RE: the D chord
From: Tweed
Date: 23 Jan 02 - 10:26 PM

Hmmmmm.....how did this come to this? Is there a Full moon out tonite or what?


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Subject: RE: the D chord
From: michaelr
Date: 23 Jan 02 - 10:04 PM

so this is what guest jj meant by "why is it so bitter"!
Michael


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Subject: RE: the D chord
From: 53
Date: 23 Jan 02 - 09:25 PM

this thread has been taken totally out of context, partially by me, and by others, so i'll close the book on my posting on this thread, knowing what was meant to be said and the way by which it was recieved. BOB


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Subject: RE: the D chord
From: Gomez
Date: 23 Jan 02 - 06:51 PM

Is it getting hot in here or is it just me?


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Subject: RE: the D chord
From: Steve in Idaho
Date: 23 Jan 02 - 05:24 PM

For the "Baiters" of this thread - were you also the ones who gave the small kids a hard time in grade school? Pushed little kids into mud puddles on the way home? Then declared yourselves cool because you didn't have those things happen to you? Seems to me that when you know someone will react in a certain way and you push that button - you are just as bad as the reaction.

Steve


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Subject: RE: the D chord
From: GUEST
Date: 23 Jan 02 - 04:57 PM

BOB,

Do you have many friends in real life?


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Subject: RE: the D chord
From: 53
Date: 23 Jan 02 - 03:39 PM

ok chris, then don't post, good riddance. BOB


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Subject: Where is Big Mick?
From: GUEST,in the Mudcat Observatory Tower
Date: 23 Jan 02 - 03:21 PM

According to Rick Fielding, Big Mick is the master of the D chord. Why has he not lent his expertise to this thread?


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Subject: RE: the D chord
From: SDShad
Date: 23 Jan 02 - 03:21 PM

Chord theory is chord theory, Bob, whether someone's singing along with it or not--not being a "song" doesn't change it. Knowing that I and V go along nicely with IV--whether it's in chording, arpeggiating, fancy pattern pickin', the foundations of melodic structure, or just a-strummin' along with a simple tune--isn't a profound revelation to anyone who's ever seen the Circle of Fifths, as I did in my Music Theory text a good *mumbley-mumbley* years ago. It's so simple, in fact, that it's been the foundation of many a rock 'n' roll career.

You still haven't said a single conversational thing to anyone in this thread, so I stand by the last bit of my post, and considering you've never heard me play or actually conversed with me about music theory, you haven't the least bloody idea how "developed" I am, whatever the hell that's supposed to mean. In the vast rainbow of opinions at the Mudcat, I have actually seen you make worthwhile contributions elsewhere. This ain't one of them--it's nothing but antagonistic trolling.

No more posting in this one for me; I'll just read with amusement.

Chris


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Subject: RE: the D chord
From: PaulM
Date: 23 Jan 02 - 02:52 PM

Bob,

You started this thread with:

but this is one for spaw to squak about and drag up his digitrad search and all that shit

Sounded more confrontational than conversational to me...

Paul


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Subject: RE: the D chord
From: 53
Date: 23 Jan 02 - 02:49 PM

Grab, the point of this thread was converstaion, but seeing that you don;t have any just don't answer if you don't like the post> BOB


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Subject: RE: the D chord
From: 53
Date: 23 Jan 02 - 02:45 PM

and for you spaw, at least i don't have a dick that weighs 127 pounds, so hush. BOB


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Subject: RE: the D chord
From: GUEST
Date: 23 Jan 02 - 02:43 PM

BOB,

You're a total tosser, so please don't accuse others of being fools.


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Subject: RE: the D chord
From: 53
Date: 23 Jan 02 - 02:41 PM

no i'm not trying to troll fool, you just aren't developed enough to understand the movements that you can make out of those chords, i not talking about songs so chek up on what i said before you start accuseing people of trolling. BOB


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Subject: RE: the D chord
From: GUEST,Janice in NJ
Date: 23 Jan 02 - 01:39 PM

On a standard 6-string guitar, I always use my left thumb to stop the 6th (bass E) string when playing either the D major or the D minor chord. For the D major, I stop the string at the 2nd fret, raising the tone from an E to an F#. For the D minor, I stop the string at the 1st fret, raising the tone from an E to an F. Otherwise, I follow the standard chord charts. I also use my thumb to stop the 6th string on several other chords, including the F (1st fret) and the F# or F#7 (2nd fret).


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Subject: RE: the D chord
From: Gomez
Date: 23 Jan 02 - 01:24 PM

The method I use is to tune a guitar to "d" or sometimes to "D" and not hold any strings down at all. I have other guitars tuned to other chords I like to use. It's a bit cumbersome to carry to gigs but it does save me getting those painful grooves in my finger-tips. The twin neck guitar was a brilliant idea but three or four necks would have been better.


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