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Songwriter Forum => The Bar => Topic started by: Johnnyuk on March 29, 2018, 07:52:51 PM
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The one I use to wrap around my wife's neck... but the notes are a little screechy! ;D
More seriously; I don't know chord names. All I can say is it's one of the "sadder" chords, if that makes any sense? I'll have to YouTube someone playing some chords and get back to you on what it's actually called...
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Take an open position C chord and slide it up a full step, but keep the open G and open E strings.
That's my favorite chord. It's a really cool transitional chord. I use it in this song:
https://hoponpop.bandcamp.com/track/im-pathetic
During the "ooh..." parts in the middle of the verses.
And in this song:
https://hoponpop.bandcamp.com/track/past-tense
it's the little sliding chord that transitions into the line "In just one second what matters becomes past tense."
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B7
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G m6/ Bb or Bb ma7b5. Very similar chords that produce different results and invites you to write a different melody.
It depends on the context of the chord I.e which other chords you use with it. It will definitely bring an ordinary every day chord sequence to life!
Wicked
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I think I'll go for ye olde augmented chord...
I'm a bit sloshed, like....so I'm not even sure what it is :)
This is maybe my favourite song...I often play it just with an acoustic guitar...I haven't really heard a version that is perfect...but, despite it being over 100 years old...I love it... loads of different versions in different keys...but I got stuck in Eb...
...and there's a bit where (I think) it goes
Cm Gm
I would say such wonderful things to you
Ab - Ab+ - Bb - Bb+ - Eb - Bbm - C7
There would be such wonderful things to do
Fm Abm Eb C+
if you were the only girl in the world.........................................
F7 - Bb7 - Eb
and I were the only boy
my favourite version is by Stanley Holloway...who I always thought looked a bit like my mams brothers Charlie and Archie (deceased)
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Nothing fancy, Am and Em in the open position.
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Gonna try all these chords out.
I don't know what a lot of my chords are called either, but a fave chord of mine is "3,3,2,open,open,open" (them's frets and strings, it's like an E major shifted up one fret and down one string). Is it a C-something?
Good thread Johnny.
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I don't see any advantage in restricting the different chords that are available to use in your songwriting.. I'd say try something a little different with your usual pallete of basic chords. It will without doubt, invite you to write melodies that you would otherwise overlook.
Wicked
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Gonna try all these chords out.
I don't know what a lot of my chords are called either, but a fave chord of mine is "3,3,2,open,open,open" (them's frets and strings, it's like an E major shifted up one fret and down one string). Is it a C-something?
Good thread Johnny.
It is a C something! I'm not sure what you'd call it tbh :P C/G? It's an inversion of a C Major with the G as a bass note....there's a Bowie song I learned it from (forget which) and appears in a number of my songs. Oh hang on...yours has a flattened 7th as well...never used that chord, will have to try it out. I guess it'd be called C7/G but that is a guess.
I have a few 'go to' chords but I love learning new ones...great for inspiration. Sometimes I make chords up....they'll have a name but just not to me
Good topic
Darren
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Mine's probably a Bb9 played on 1st fret.
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Mine - DMaj7 - “the Everything But the Girl Chord”
@paulyx I think yours is a CMaj7/G
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I think I'll go for ye olde augmented chord...
I'm a bit sloshed, like....so I'm not even sure what it is :)
This is maybe my favourite song...I often play it just with an acoustic guitar...I haven't really heard a version that is perfect...but, despite it being over 100 years old...I love it... loads of different versions in different keys...but I got stuck in Eb...
...and there's a bit where (I think) it goes
Cm Gm
I would say such wonderful things to you
Ab - Ab+ - Bb - Bb+ - Eb - Bbm - C7
There would be such wonderful things to do
Fm Abm Eb C+
if you were the only girl in the world.........................................
F7 - Bb7 - Eb
and I were the only boy
my favourite version is by Stanley Holloway...who I always thought looked a bit like my mams brothers Charlie and Archie (deceased)
I love that for someone with such an edgy punky style that your favourite song is this. Just goes to show the diversity in peoples influences. I really enjoyed listening (not something I would normally seek out). EDIT: There's nothing wrong with the song...it's just my mind tends to stereotype peoples influences based on the genre they (tend to) write in.
Would been keen to hear you cover this on your acoustic!
Darren
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Bdemented ;D 8)
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(Couldn't get my head around the Gm6/Bb til I made it the ii-chord. )
Kind of like Asus4 and Dsus2/F.
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I feel I should say that I love all my chords equally, that a boring old C ::) major is as good as any other one, but I have to admit a certain thing for Am7 and Dm7, especially played on keyboard
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Haha this thread sort of tickles me. Because I have favourite chords (I call em default chords cos I have to try really hard not to start songs with them).
But isn't the context more important. You can play Gm9 as much as you like, but if you don't contrast it with Bb+7 and D7, you might be missing the point ;)
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