Your Favorite Chord

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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,.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: GUEST,Joseph Scott
Date: 29 Oct 18 - 11:33 PM

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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,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: 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,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: 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,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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Andy7
Date: 04 Nov 18 - 06:51 PM

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

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: 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: 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: The Sandman
Date: 05 Nov 18 - 04:06 AM

the notes are dfsharp g de