[Johnnyuk]

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[Sterix]

The one I use to wrap around my wife's neck... but the notes are a little screechy! 

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...

[PopTodd]

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."

[pompeyjazz]

B7

[Wicked Deeds]

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

[Johnnyuk]

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[PaulAds]

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)

[Bill Saunders]

Nothing fancy, Am and Em in the open position.

[PaulyX]

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.

[Wicked Deeds]

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

[Darren1664]

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 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

[Viscount Cramer & His Orchestra]

Mine's probably a Bb9 played on 1st fret.

[adamfarr]

Mine - DMaj7 - “the Everything But the Girl Chord”


@paulyx I think yours is a CMaj7/G

[Darren1664]

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

[Johnnyuk]

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