Your Favorite Chord

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: The Sandman
Date: 05 Nov 18 - 04:06 AM

the notes are dfsharp g de

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: GUEST,Jerry
Date: 05 Nov 18 - 03:06 AM

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,

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: Pappy Fiddle
Date: 04 Nov 18 - 10:44 PM

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.

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 04 Nov 18 - 07:31 PM

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

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: Andy7
Date: 04 Nov 18 - 06:51 PM

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

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: Bill D
Date: 04 Nov 18 - 06:21 PM

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...

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 04 Nov 18 - 01:41 PM

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

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: Nick
Date: 04 Nov 18 - 01:20 PM

G7#9

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

That will do for favourite chord of the last hour

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: Donuel
Date: 03 Nov 18 - 09:45 PM

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.

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: Joe Offer
Date: 02 Nov 18 - 01:30 PM

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

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: The Sandman
Date: 02 Nov 18 - 01:28 PM

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

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: GUEST
Date: 02 Nov 18 - 10:15 AM

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

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: Jack Campin
Date: 02 Nov 18 - 09:54 AM

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).

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: DG&D Dave
Date: 02 Nov 18 - 07:53 AM

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

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: GUEST,Modette
Date: 31 Oct 18 - 12:14 PM

My favourite's this one.


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

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 31 Oct 18 - 11:14 AM

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.

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: GUEST,DTM
Date: 31 Oct 18 - 10:41 AM

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.

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: Tradsinger
Date: 30 Oct 18 - 09:43 AM

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

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: GUEST,Jerry
Date: 30 Oct 18 - 04:01 AM

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.

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: BobL
Date: 30 Oct 18 - 02:28 AM

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?"

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: GUEST,Joseph Scott
Date: 29 Oct 18 - 11:33 PM

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Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 29 Oct 18 - 10:41 PM

It was asked previously in the thread about *The Devils Chord.

Genie- April 03, 2003 11:17
GUEST:Chicken Charlie 29 October, 2003

This link will provide an axplanation and examples of:

diablous musica— ”Satan in music.” Modern music theorists know it as the tritone (as well as a diminished fifth, or an augmented fourth), though it’s also called the devil’s interval or the devil’s triad.

https://qz.com/quartzy/1429949/devils-interval-what-makes-music-sound-scary/

Sincerely,
Gargoyle



Flatted fifth they mention...was an old joke about jazz and blues....they flat their fifths....we drink them.

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: songs2play
Date: 30 Oct 02 - 04:11 AM

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

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: GUEST,Bill
Date: 29 Oct 02 - 09:02 PM

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

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: GUEST,T-Tone
Date: 29 Oct 02 - 08:24 PM

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.

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 29 Oct 02 - 07:52 PM

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

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: Leadfingers
Date: 29 Oct 02 - 07:23 PM

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

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: GUEST,Chicken Charlie
Date: 29 Oct 02 - 06:23 PM

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

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: GUEST,Garydon
Date: 29 Oct 02 - 05:29 PM

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

Gary®

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: My guru always said
Date: 29 Oct 02 - 05:05 PM

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.....

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: 53
Date: 29 Oct 02 - 03:05 PM

refresh

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: 53
Date: 05 Apr 02 - 10:59 PM

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

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

Claymore, how lyrical!!!!

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: Don Firth
Date: 05 Apr 02 - 08:31 PM

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

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: 53
Date: 05 Apr 02 - 07:00 PM

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.

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: GUEST
Date: 05 Apr 02 - 01:02 PM

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)....

Subject: BS: Your Favorite Chord
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 04 Apr 02 - 07:42 PM

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

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: 53
Date: 04 Apr 02 - 07:14 PM

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

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: Bullfrog Jones
Date: 04 Apr 02 - 06:30 PM

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

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: GUEST,Claymore
Date: 04 Apr 02 - 06:18 PM

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...)

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 04 Apr 02 - 05:50 PM

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

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: Hilary
Date: 04 Apr 02 - 05:36 PM

At the moment :

Em7 and 002200 which I believe is called A add 9

least favourite definitely Bm

Hilary

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: Steve Latimer
Date: 04 Apr 02 - 03:07 PM

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

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 04 Apr 02 - 02:44 PM

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

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: Mooh
Date: 04 Apr 02 - 02:37 PM

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.

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: C-flat
Date: 04 Apr 02 - 02:33 PM

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.

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 04 Apr 02 - 02:23 PM

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

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: Bobert
Date: 04 Apr 02 - 02:00 PM

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...

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: 53
Date: 04 Apr 02 - 01:47 PM

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.

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Chord
From: Grab
Date: 04 Apr 02 - 12:40 PM

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.