I never knew chords made such a difference.

[capnkid]

I mean you just put your fingers in different places and the sound changes, wow.
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[fraserhutch]

And there's more than three of them, too. That's apparently not common knowledge

 

[XLR]

Yeah, you'd think that a guitar track is just a gtr track, but then you find out it actually matters where you put your left hand fingers. Who'd have figured?

And then there are the obsessed types who care about things like "tone". Jeez.

 

[pohaku]

I think it was Keith Richards who said that all you really need for rock and roll are three chords, two fingers and one asshole.

 

[Slowrider]

Can you do all that?, using just the one arm? Damn, I'm impressed!

 

[dragonworks]

chords are way overrated

 

[mikemorgan]

Keef only needed 5 strings and 1 finger in the old days. Ed Sullivan made him use a different finger........

 

[Sirnothingness]

I tuned my guitar to open e and just strum the strings and sing "aaaayyayayayayayayayayayyaaaa". It seems to work.

 

[lpdeluxe]

Chords, chords, chords...

...oh, you mean "holts!"

Like, "this is a G holt, and this is a D holt" etc.

Yeah, once I learn some of them I'll rock out.

 

[true-eurt]

Gawd, I hate chords...

 

[Dani Pace]

Kinda makes me wonder if anyone ever really uses an Augmented D7m# with a suspended 3rd? Or some of those other strange sounding things you sometimes find written into music which make it painfully obvious that piano players should not write music for guitar.

 

[Kramer]

Peanut butter is good with jelly too!

 

[lpdeluxe]

Augmented D7m# with a suspended 3rd

Usually, reinstalling Windows will fix that.

 

[chazba]

My gitar yusta have 6 cords but 2 ofem done broke

 

[dementedchord]

your making all this way too complicated.... if you play a wrong note once it's wrong.... if you play it twice.... it's jazzzzzzz....

 

[ggunn]

your making all this way too complicated.... if you play a wrong note once it's wrong.... if you play it twice.... it's jazzzzzzz....

...and if you play it three times, it's mainstream.

 

[XLR]

your making all this way too complicated.... if you play a wrong note once it's wrong.... if you play it twice.... it's jazzzzzzz....

And if you bend it, it's blues.

 

[lpdeluxe]

and if you play it slowly...

...it's "new age."

 

[capnkid]

And if you play open with a dropped D..

Then it's everything on the radio.

 

[Zed10R]

explore

There are limitless voices INSIDE the chords..play the entire chord...and mess around with voicings inside the root and the highes note...the middle makings up of them...there is beauty in there...