HELP: how to do an E chord?

Subject: HELP: how to do an E chord?
From: greg stephens
Date: 28 Feb 02 - 01:16 PM

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Subject: RE: HELP: how to do an E chord?
From: kendall
Date: 28 Feb 02 - 01:25 PM

On what instrument?

Subject: RE: HELP: how to do an E chord?
From: JenEllen
Date: 28 Feb 02 - 01:27 PM

Does THIS help?
~J

Subject: RE: HELP: how to do an E chord?
From: GUEST
Date: 28 Feb 02 - 01:32 PM

Ignore this thread.

Greg and others have decided to amuse themselves by creating stupid thread titles.

Please don't reply (and you thought GUESTS were bad?)

Subject: RE: HELP: how to do an E chord?
From: kendall
Date: 28 Feb 02 - 01:35 PM

That's why I didn't give a straight answer.

Subject: RE: HELP: how to do an E chord?
From: Louie Roy
Date: 28 Feb 02 - 01:45 PM

The easy way like the capo lovers like capo up and play either in C Chord or G Chord no problem Louie Roy

Subject: RE: HELP: how to do an E chord?
From: JenEllen
Date: 28 Feb 02 - 01:47 PM

GUEST, that's why I did give a straight answer.
~J

Subject: RE: HELP: how to do an E chord?
From: greg stephens
Date: 28 Feb 02 - 01:50 PM

thanks Louie,but what's a capo?

Subject: RE: HELP: how to do an E chord?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 28 Feb 02 - 01:56 PM

Some kinf of Mafioso soldier

Subject: RE: HELP: how to do an E chord?
From: Don Firth
Date: 28 Feb 02 - 03:34 PM

Capo literally means "head." One meaning of head is "the little room aboard a boat of some kind." Head also refers to the fifteen or sixteen pounds of ugly fat that Dr. Guillotine's reducing salon guarantees it can remove instantaneously. I once heard about a fellow who kept his head a a location where he had to have a pane of plexiglass installed just below his navel so he could see where he was going. I hope this helps.

E, G#, and B, played on whatever musical instrument happens to be handy. I leave it to you to work out the details.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: HELP: how to do an E chord?
From: Steve in Idaho
Date: 28 Feb 02 - 03:59 PM

No matter how this thread was intended - that is the coolest program!! I hear people talking about these different chords and now I can look them up. It makes a difference for those of us who wre never formally schooled. I was initially shown three chords and have picked the rest up over the years.

I get the feeling that some folks look down on others because they use a capo. I'll use anything to play music with someone else. It's not about my technical perfection - it's about making music with friends.

Steve

Subject: RE: HELP: how to do an E chord?
From: Les from Hull
Date: 28 Feb 02 - 04:48 PM

What! There's more than three chords!

Subject: RE: HELP: how to do an E chord?
From: Bill D
Date: 28 Feb 02 - 05:25 PM

sure---there's 21 chords...I looked 'em up on my autoharp

Subject: RE: HELP: how to do an E chord?
From: GUEST
Date: 01 Mar 02 - 12:22 AM

No, there's only one chord, but you can start it on all different notes---

Subject: RE: HELP: how to do an E chord?
From: Genie
Date: 01 Mar 02 - 04:30 AM

How do you do an E chord on the piccolo?

Subject: RE: HELP: how to do an E chord?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 01 Mar 02 - 06:32 AM

An E chord that I think sounds pretty good is where you fret the A string on the 7th fret, and the D and the G on the 9th fret, and leave the other strings open. I love the way it rings out.

I don't know what you'd call this. I've never seen anyone else play it, but I imagine lots of other people playing around must have found it.

Subject: RE: HELP: how to do an E chord?
From: GUEST,Chris
Date: 01 Mar 02 - 06:50 AM

You've obviously never seen me play, McGrath *grin*

I love that chord shape. It's also (as you've probably discovered, moveable) It sounds great with the A string fretted at 2, 3, 5, 7 (as you mention), 9, 10 and 12.

I play an arrangement of 'Soul Cake' using just this shape

Chris

Subject: RE: HELP: how to do an E chord?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 01 Mar 02 - 07:31 AM

I knew there had to be other people out there who liked this one.

Actually of course it's not an E chord at all, and by some definitions not a chord as such at all, since it's only got two notes. It's an E Dyad, with just the E and the B notes, so it isn't either Major (with the G#) or Minor (with the G). Anyway it's a sound I love.

I suppose if you wanted to play an E major up there with open string, you could just fret the A string on the 11th fret, and leave the rest the same, but I don't like the sound as much. (And for an E minor instead leave the G string unfretted - I quite like that sound.)

Subject: RE: HELP: how to do an E chord?
From: GUEST,Chris
Date: 01 Mar 02 - 07:49 AM

Ha!

Thank you for that minor version. I hadn't tried it before, but now realise that it's the chord shape that the astonishing voiced Tim Buckley used on his live version of 'Pleasant Street' (He uses a 12 string and a capo mind)

So for that, many thanks!

Chris

Subject: RE: HELP: how to do an E chord?
From: Ritchie
Date: 01 Mar 02 - 10:49 AM

I think the easiest way to get any chord is just to go up to the piano player and say .." Hey give me an E, A or whatever " even to my untrained ear it's spot on every time !

Ritchie the threadkiller.

Subject: RE: HELP: how to do an E chord?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 01 Mar 02 - 01:16 PM

Surely if you only said that the piano player would just play a note rather than a chord?

Subject: RE: HELP: how to do an E chord?
From: M.Ted
Date: 01 Mar 02 - 01:59 PM

You've rediscovered power chords, Kevin--start out on the seventh, move it to the 10th, then 12th--then 7th, 10th, 13th-12th-- you've got "Smoke on the Water"!

Subject: RE: HELP: how to do an E chord?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 01 Mar 02 - 04:41 PM

As I said, it's not technically a chord if there are only two notes. On a bouzouki you can do diads all the time if you feel like it.

Subject: RE: HELP: how to do an E chord?
From: GUEST,whinded
Date: 01 Mar 02 - 05:08 PM

<< How do you do an E chord on the piccolo? >>

That's easy --- but what I wanna know is how you do an E chord on the Bohemian nose flute.

Subject: RE: HELP: how to do an E chord?
From: Ritchie
Date: 02 Mar 02 - 09:30 AM

McGrath, I suppose your right, but I remember being in Barnsley and someone saying 'E' by gum, listen to that.So I assume that they knew what they were talking about.

regards Ritchie

Subject: RE: HELP: how to do an E chord?
From: M.Ted
Date: 02 Mar 02 - 10:50 AM

Although not technically chords, those fifth diads are called "power chords" by the heavy metal players, and they are basic elements in the style--