This post of mine is actually quite useless.
If you really wanted to learn, you would probably go to a real site. but hey!, it is a free world.
I am just putting it up here because, after people have been seeing my video, they have been asking me things like:
'Hey ! You have a RR3 right ? Do you actually play the guitar or did you buy it simply because you thought it looked cool!'
'Since how many HOURS have you been playing the guitar ? '
etc...
So here are 2 new chords that you can use to 'spice' up your compositions.
1) The add 9 chord.
You know the ubiquitous power chord written like : A5
which I am holding in this snap:
You can add a ninth to the root and the fifth, with your little finger, which will be a B in our case, as shown here:
Added a B on the D string with the 'pinkie'. This is really an ASus2 chord.
Ever heard the Intro for Joe Satriani's 'Secret Prayer' ? well, they are added ninth chords
2) The 'Voicings':
This is not the actual name of this group of chords, but it is easier than remembering the actual names. I shall show you why later.
Here is the simple F# (major) barred chord.
Now, to turn it into a voicing, just remove the 'barring' index finger, so that you end up with 3 open strings as shown:
As you can see, the index finger is lifted up. This is a F#m7Sus4 chord, you see what I mean ? hence we just call them 'voicings'
This gives a whole new flavor to the sound, also the presence of 3 open strings means that the chord will ring out more and will sound 'richer'. This helps on guitars with old\hard strings.
Ever heard Alice n chains ? they use these 'voicings' in many of their songs, including 'Rooster', 'No Excuses', 'Heaven beside you' etc...
Have fun.
Equipment used - Jackson RR3, SONY DSC H-5, and my fingers.
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Listenin to Fantaisie impromptu - Chopin
2 comments:
Damn, I was planning on having a post on alt chords myself, you beat me to it. I think I'll still write it though; that's a nice idea of using photos to show them, I would have just used x-x-x-x-x-x notation.
Also, nggghhh you're playing acoustic chords on the RR3 :P
Correction. your comment should have read:
'Also, nggghhh you're playing chords on the RR3 :P'
I am down with the flu man
feel like hell.
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