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Guitar Players! How is good is your chord vocabulary?
Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 9:32 pm
by lemur68_Archive
I learned this bad boy outta a Mel Bay book way back, I call it "The Claw." Note the white knuckles.
Fingering:
E-3--
B-3--
G-2--
D-2--
A-3--
E-3--
Guitar Players! How is good is your chord vocabulary?
Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 9:33 pm
by burun_Archive
Chords, like tuning, is a crutch.
Guitar Players! How is good is your chord vocabulary?
Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 9:42 pm
by Skronk_Archive
I like plotting chords out from scale degrees. It lets me get used to the shapes better than a chord chart does.[/nerd]
Guitar Players! How is good is your chord vocabulary?
Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 10:13 pm
by iembalm_Archive
Well I didn't start on guitar until after that fire at the gypsy caravan and then the accident at the sheet metal factory. Doctors said I should take it up as therapy. So my chord vocabulary is a bit limited.
Guitar Players! How is good is your chord vocabulary?
Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 10:17 pm
by that damned fly_Archive
burun wrote:Chords, like tuning, am a crutch.
fyp.
Guitar Players! How is good is your chord vocabulary?
Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 11:04 pm
by Antero_Archive
I have a very extensive chord vocabulary and no scale vocabulary.
burun wrote:Chords, like tuning, is a crutch.
Only to the degree that grammar is.
All a chord is is grabbing a bunch of notes and naming it in a way that suggests the relationship of those notes to each other and to other groups of notes. It's a fucking necessity if you want to communicate harmonic ideas really quickly to other musicians, and is useful for tracing a harmonic palate without reinventing the language each time.
Guitar Players! How is good is your chord vocabulary?
Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 11:06 pm
by Steve V_Archive
i ud de thumb when it feel good i go rawk.
Guitar Players! How is good is your chord vocabulary?
Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 12:05 am
by Spoke_Archive
i know WAY more than i use on a regular basis...some i have yet to find a use for, some that suggest whole new songs the first time i play them.
i also go thru phases with certain chord voicings, like finding yourself attracted to redheads for awhile and then suddenly discovering you REALLY like women of S.E. Asian ancestry ALOT.
okay, a bit too much there.
i also love me an open E major chord in standard tuning.
i'm sick like that.
Guitar Players! How is good is your chord vocabulary?
Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 12:23 am
by barndog_Archive
I'm taking jazz guitar classes now, so it's getting better. I'll be happy when I not only know how to play them - but can also recognize them when I hear them.
Guitar Players! How is good is your chord vocabulary?
Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 12:44 am
by scott_Archive
I know how to figure out any chord you spell out for me, and likewise I know how to spell out any chord you play for me. Can I do it in an instant? Hell no. Do I consciously implement it when playing? Barely, and not often. I much prefer to figure out, by ear, what *sounds* best, rather than trying to comply with any of the rules that I understand. One of the best songs I've ever written uses a host of chords that are bizarre if you spell them out and name them. Totally obscure. But I wrote it by ear, so that didn't mean shit.
Playing in a free-form or structured jam environment, it's crucial. In a rock band, all you need is an ear and some time to figure it out.
