Your Favorite Chord

03 Apr 02 - 09:21 PM (#682427)
Subject: Your Favorite Chord
From: 53

What is your favorite chord. Mine is E?

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03 Apr 02 - 09:26 PM (#682431)
Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: Lonesome EJ

A#m7

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03 Apr 02 - 09:27 PM (#682433)
Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: GUEST,wdyat24

Why is E your favorite chord 53?

wdyat24

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03 Apr 02 - 09:30 PM (#682436)
Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: kendall

Dm with the low E string dropped to D

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03 Apr 02 - 09:32 PM (#682437)
Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: 53

It is a strong chord and it has balls.

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03 Apr 02 - 09:33 PM (#682438)
Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: GUEST,Steven

D

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03 Apr 02 - 09:45 PM (#682442)
Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: catspaw49

Ona cold night it would be of firewood.

Spaw

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03 Apr 02 - 09:47 PM (#682445)
Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: GUEST,matt

Definately plain open position G. I can play around with that for hours. My other favorite chords, though I love to play them, i have no idea what they're called.

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03 Apr 02 - 09:50 PM (#682447)
Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: JenEllen

Em. Technically a piece of cake. Acoustically an earfull as well as being heartbreakingly sad.

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03 Apr 02 - 09:51 PM (#682448)
Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: Anahootz

Bungee.

'hootz

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03 Apr 02 - 10:10 PM (#682463)
Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: GUEST,Jup

The E cords are all great,and AD9 . Jup.

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03 Apr 02 - 10:15 PM (#682465)
Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: Bert

Yup E is good. But it's much better when it's preceded by a B7.

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03 Apr 02 - 10:21 PM (#682470)
Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: Amergin

well we don't call them cords we call them lines.....not much a fan of manila....or polypropylene....like nylon the best it stretches a bit....and is not too hard to tie with like poly...and is easier to splice than manila....(and lasts longer).

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03 Apr 02 - 10:33 PM (#682474)
Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: GUEST,wdyat24

Open G for me. Full chord leading everywhere.

wdyat24

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03 Apr 02 - 11:17 PM (#682496)
Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: Genie

Isn't there a chord (usually done on the piano) called "the devil's chord?" I've heard it before but I can't remember what chord it is. It's a great chord for ominous-sounding music. Anyone know what it is?

G

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04 Apr 02 - 02:27 AM (#682557)
Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: C-flat

Umbilical. May I ask a question of you 53? Which of your many recent questions on "favourites" has been your favourite?

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04 Apr 02 - 03:05 AM (#682574)
Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: mousethief

C. The plain old, first-position one. Gives you the full octave to pick over right in the middle, with slop room on the bottom (for walk-downs and -ups) and on the top (for melody runs). And I can sing in that key most songs that aren't plagal.

I keep wearing out the first fret on the 5th string of my guitars because of it. Shall have to learn to re-fret them or something.

Alex

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04 Apr 02 - 03:16 AM (#682580)
Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: mooman

Don't know...got some lovely ones in DADGAD tuning but never got round to working out what they were...now where's my DADGAD chart...?

mooman

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04 Apr 02 - 04:12 AM (#682608)
Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: Clinton Hammond

I really like the one that runs from my guitar to my tuner...

My 2nd fav. is the one that goes from my tuner to the sound board...

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04 Apr 02 - 04:43 AM (#682616)
Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: GUEST

Fmaj7

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04 Apr 02 - 10:46 AM (#682808)
Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: 53

Cflat, here's your answer. I just like to make conversation and bring a little cheer into Mudcat. Is ther anything wrong with that? You can probly tell my threads so if it bothers you just skip them OK.

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04 Apr 02 - 10:49 AM (#682810)
Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: GUEST,Am7

There isn't any chord that comes cloes and all of you E'ites be damned!!

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04 Apr 02 - 10:58 AM (#682817)
Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: Catherine Jayne

I like to play in Db major!!!! Jez's is Ab minor diminished............LOL!!!!

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04 Apr 02 - 11:14 AM (#682829)
Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull

G.john

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04 Apr 02 - 11:16 AM (#682832)
Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: GUEST,Am7

Me Me Me ME!!!!!!!!!

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04 Apr 02 - 11:21 AM (#682833)
Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: Catherine Jayne

I diddnt mean that jez is diminished.........well.........no its her favourite chord!!!!

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04 Apr 02 - 11:23 AM (#682834)
Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: GUEST,Amergin

Cflat...I don't see BOB's threads to be any worse than many other threads I have seen here...and a whole sight better than others.....lay off of him.

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04 Apr 02 - 12:20 PM (#682874)
Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: Fortunato

I prefer 53's threads to the non-music threads. The opportunity to discuss specific guitars is appreciated by many. Personally "American Bashing" and discussing Charles Manson, etc, have no interest for me. I'd much prefer to talk about guitars and chords.

I agree with Amergin, Cflat, if you don't like the threads, don't sign on.

Bob, I have three answers. First, I love to sing in A and D. I prefer to play A in the open G position with the capo at the second fret and D in the open C postion with the capo at the second fret. But for sound only I love the 6/9 chord.

53 you keep posting, I always read them, even if I have nothing to add. regards, Fortunato

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04 Apr 02 - 12:40 PM (#682890)
Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: Grab

Hey, what's your favourite foot to walk on? Or your favourite gear for driving in? ;-)

If I'm playing around, it'll usually be in key of A, Am, Bm, C, D, Dm, E, Em, F or G - they're all handy for playing stuff in. No real preferences. Although a G chord in drop-D or double-drop-D sounds sweet.

Almost always though, I play capo-2 or capo-4 to suit my voice.

Graham.

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04 Apr 02 - 01:47 PM (#682959)
Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: 53

Thanks Fortunato, I feel the same way. I would much rather talk music and guitars than some of the other stuff we have to choose from.

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04 Apr 02 - 02:00 PM (#682967)
Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: Bobert

OPEN G... there, that makes four of us, I think. But Spawz is right in that the Open G. like most favorite chords, is awfully hard to get lit... but when you do, whew, you're gonna' need to open the windows and doors...

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04 Apr 02 - 02:23 PM (#682983)
Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: Lonesome EJ

You guys are being a little hard on C-flat, aren't you? I don't see any mean-spiritedness (word?) in his question.

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04 Apr 02 - 02:33 PM (#682996)
Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: C-flat

I much prefer the music threads too but I was begining to suspect that 53 was poking fun at the site! I'm just poking back a little. C-flat.

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04 Apr 02 - 02:37 PM (#682999)
Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: Mooh

Well, favourite chord? That's about as twisted as having a favourite note. But that's what I like about Bob53's posts, there's a kind of twisted logic about them.

My favourite chord is the one which works the best to my ears when needed. Sometimes as rare as the Holy Grail.

Well done Bob, you've kept folks talking about something musical!

Peace, Mooh.

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04 Apr 02 - 02:44 PM (#683005)
Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: Lonesome EJ

What about that "Lost Chord"? Or do the Moody Blues still have it?

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04 Apr 02 - 03:07 PM (#683021)
Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: Steve Latimer

As a Five String player, my favourite chord is G. (Five-Stings are open tuned to G).

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04 Apr 02 - 05:36 PM (#683165)
Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: Hilary

At the moment :

Em7 and 002200 which I believe is called A add 9

least favourite definitely Bm

Hilary

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04 Apr 02 - 05:50 PM (#683178)
Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: Catherine Jayne

How about C# minor or a neopolitan 6th chord!!!!

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04 Apr 02 - 06:18 PM (#683203)
Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: GUEST,Claymore

An Em for a jig such as Morrison's; it says shit's gonna happen...

An Am for a reel such as "Groweling Old Man, Grumbling Old Woman" for the same reason...

And Bm for the waltzes, like "Two Rivers" or "Far Away" 'cause it's a sweet minor that tells you that nothing bad is going to happen.

(Fmaj7 is what you should drink a single malt scotch to... while the open G is strictly a beer chord...)

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04 Apr 02 - 06:30 PM (#683215)
Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: Bullfrog Jones

D Augmented for creating a sense of ant....................................................................................................................................................................................icipation!

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04 Apr 02 - 07:14 PM (#683244)
Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: 53

Em11 is a nice chord, and it helps new players to be able to change chords without stopping.

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04 Apr 02 - 07:42 PM (#683276)
Subject: BS: Your Favorite Chord
From: McGrath of Harlow

I've always believed that BS as a prefix shouldn't be restricted to non-musical threads.

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05 Apr 02 - 01:02 PM (#683813)
Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: GUEST

Em9, for a dollop of dissonance along with the sadness JenEllen mentioned ... chorded this way from from bottom string to top: E;D;G;F#;B;E (or for a different sound from the same chord: F#;D;G;E;B;E)...

A close second is this strange creature: F#;D;G;F#;C (or substitute E for one of the F#'s)....

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05 Apr 02 - 07:00 PM (#684073)
Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: 53

I've never gotten into open tuning, I would like too but it seems that every time I try my guitar always comes up flat, so that I spend more time tuning that playing.

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05 Apr 02 - 08:31 PM (#684168)
Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: Don Firth

Try starting out in E, move back and forth between E, A, and B7 for a bit. Then when you're on A and ready to move back to the E, play a C instead. Pause. Then return to the E. Aaaahhh!

Don Firth

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05 Apr 02 - 08:35 PM (#684172)
Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: GUEST,Claymore's admirer

Claymore, how lyrical!!!!

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05 Apr 02 - 10:59 PM (#684251)
Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: 53

Barre Chords are nice to work on especially if your guitar is set enough so that it won't kill your fingers.

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29 Oct 02 - 03:05 PM (#813809)
Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: 53

refresh

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29 Oct 02 - 05:05 PM (#813913)
Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: My guru always said

Pru minor & Prim major.

A good friend didn't know the names of these chords & wanted to remember them somehow. So I said, why don't you name them after your cats - so she did & she always remembers them now.

OK, I confess, I sing a bit, possibly not a real musician.....

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29 Oct 02 - 05:29 PM (#813930)
Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: GUEST,Garydon

Open tuning to a Gm is fun and haunting to play. In Standard tuning I like the sound of Am9

Gary®

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29 Oct 02 - 06:23 PM (#813961)
Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: GUEST,Chicken Charlie

On a guitar, C with the index finger off, i.e. 332000.

On a dobro being played guitar style, G7 with an added D, i.e. 320031.

Sorry, I can't remember chord terminology and I'm too lazy to go look it up. No doubt someone will feel obliged to comment, thereby furthering thread creep. (Voice from the rear: "Don't call me a creep!")

On a banjo, Ward's High Atmosphere, which I believe is a C9: eCGCD. Truly mellow on an open-back.

Re. the 'Devil's Chord'--anything like "Graveyard Tuning," of which there are several variants, Dock Boggs' being one?? Someone has no doubt talked about all that in threads of yore.

CC

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29 Oct 02 - 07:23 PM (#814010)
Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: Leadfingers

CMAJ7 or FMAJ7 or Gmajor with the B on the first string in standard tuning

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29 Oct 02 - 07:52 PM (#814023)
Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: Bee-dubya-ell

577600, which I just realized is another voicing of the A add 9 Hilary had mentioned above.

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29 Oct 02 - 08:24 PM (#814046)
Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: GUEST,T-Tone

Well on a guitar, it's got to be G because there's so many ways in which one can utilize the open strings. This also, in a way, maximizes the volume and acoustical properties, even I might add, on an electric guitar. Open notes, or strings, usually ring better hence giving a truer representation of the quality of guitar which is being played.

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29 Oct 02 - 09:02 PM (#814081)
Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: GUEST,Bill

I have lots of favourite chords-THE ONES I DON'T MISS.
Bill

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30 Oct 02 - 04:11 AM (#814200)
Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: songs2play

I know you only asked for single one, but my favorite is a sequence of 3 chords
Don't know the names of the second and third ones
E(022100) - (044200) - (066400) then back down

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29 Oct 18 - 11:33 PM (#3959166)
Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: GUEST,Joseph Scott

I

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30 Oct 18 - 02:28 AM (#3959170)
Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: BobL

All these posts - well the on-topic ones at least - are on about guitar chords. What about other instruments, for example melodeons? Plenty of fancy chords available there by playing across the LH rows.

Although the question "what's your favourite …" invariably deserves the response "favourite for what?"

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30 Oct 18 - 04:01 AM (#3959185)
Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: GUEST,Jerry

Is it just me, or do others find these sort of threads a bit unhealthy? If I admit to having a favourite chord, then have I reached a plateau in my learning and playing? Surely my favourite chord, song, tune or recording artist, etc ought to keep changing as more are discovered. Just like the lost chord, I have yet to find it, but the fun is in the journey.

Besides, chords have to be heard in context, not just with those immediately before and after, but arriving at just the right place in the song or tune. Someone mentioned Em in Morrisons Jig, and yes it has a satisfyingly dramatic impact when it immediately follows a tune in D or G major.

However, I assume some of us just like particular guitar chord shapes, like D, C, E and Em because they sit comfortably under the fingers and make good use of unfretted strings. Few people seem to favour Bm because it is awkward to finger for some, but it sounds great on guitar. Rodrigo’s Aranjuez Concerto works beautifully in Bm, but loses something when dropped to Am.

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30 Oct 18 - 09:43 AM (#3959227)
Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: Tradsinger

Any minor 7th or major 7 (i.e. CMaj7, not C7 - CEGB)

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31 Oct 18 - 10:41 AM (#3959384)
Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: GUEST,DTM

My favourite chord is one that surprises me but sounds right and fits perfectly. For me, it's not actual notation of the chord but how & where it's used.

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31 Oct 18 - 11:14 AM (#3959389)
Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: Bee-dubya-ell

355400. It's essentially the G major barre chord everybody knows and loves, but with the first finger only fretting the 6th string instead of making a barre, thus leaving the 1st and 2nd strings open. The same shape sounds good at frets 1, 5, 7 and 8 as well.

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31 Oct 18 - 12:14 PM (#3959400)
Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: GUEST,Modette

My favourite's this one.


Jimmy Durante - I'm the Guy Who Found the Lost Chord

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02 Nov 18 - 07:53 AM (#3959695)
Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: DG&D Dave

Gm without 5th, on the mandolin. 'cause it only needs one finger and I'm a lazy so-and-so.

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02 Nov 18 - 09:54 AM (#3959709)
Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: Jack Campin

All guitar chords sound the same unless you're a guitarist, so no favourites on that.

Two orchestral ones, where the scoring makes all the difference: the opening chord of
Prokofiev's Alexander Nevsky (not much more than a spread-out G minor but with amazing instrumentation) and Wagner's Tristan chord (which was actually invented by Chopin but being stuck with just a piano he couldn't do much with it).

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02 Nov 18 - 10:15 AM (#3959711)
Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: GUEST

Looking at my guitar, my favorite chord is E minor because that's where the fretboard is the most worn.

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02 Nov 18 - 01:28 PM (#3959741)
Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: The Sandman

355400. The individual notes are gddbbe it is an inversion of a g6 chord, on 5 fret it is an a9. on 7 fret it is b with sharpened third, or flat 4, on 8 fret bit is cmajor7

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02 Nov 18 - 01:30 PM (#3959745)
Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: Joe Offer

R-flat minor seventh diminished, with a suspended ninth....
(clique)

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03 Nov 18 - 09:45 PM (#3959962)
Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: Donuel

G6 or the mystery of any ethereal 6 chord which resolves down or up.
My mind hears every chord with a different pull or push, openness or closedness, approach or retreat. You can even associate colors when you close your eyes. Or maybe you can't and I just have synthesisia.

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04 Nov 18 - 01:20 PM (#3960055)
Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: Nick

G7#9

First chord of Steely Dan's 'Don't Take Me Alive'

That will do for favourite chord of the last hour

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04 Nov 18 - 01:41 PM (#3960057)
Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: Big Al Whittle

I'm a complete tart, I use them all for my own pleasure - then just go on to the next.

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04 Nov 18 - 06:21 PM (#3960089)
Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: Bill D

Mercy, Joe... all these years and The Key of R is still being folk processed with the processor set on puree!

If Beethoven's 9th had been treated like that, it would by now sound like "Itsy Bitsy Spider"...

I think, now that digital videos are easy, I may just make a recording of my attempt to get both the tune and the spirit of it as close as possible...

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04 Nov 18 - 06:51 PM (#3960094)
Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: Andy7

Hard to fault the much-used chord of D major!

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04 Nov 18 - 07:31 PM (#3960097)
Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: Big Al Whittle

oh I dunno! bit of a sissy key if you ask me...

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04 Nov 18 - 10:44 PM (#3960112)
Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: Pappy Fiddle

Not sure what name it should have, but in standard tuning it's a C finger pattern slid up 2 frets (with no bar) so 054020. You can strum it or arpeggio it. It replaces a D in certain situations.

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05 Nov 18 - 03:06 AM (#3960119)
Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: GUEST,Jerry

If you mean X54030, that is a D chord, but with an added second and fourth ( of the D major scale). Paul Simon famously used it in some of his early songs,

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05 Nov 18 - 04:06 AM (#3960128)
Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: The Sandman

the notes are dfsharp g de

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