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Original message:518 days 2 hours 55 minutes ago

Member: Theskit

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What are your favorite chords. I wanna find the coolest sounding ones. give us the names and the notes in the chord and if its important the position witch you prefer the sound in.

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Reply:518 days 2 hours 7 minutes ago
Member: shanejohnson2002

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I like this one:

Standard tuning

Low to High:

0 11 9 9 0 0

It's just an E major, but the voicing sounds so cool!

I've also experimented with moving around different barre shapes, leaving the index finger off to let open strings ring out. Here's a cool one:
0 5 4 0 3 0

That one sounds far better arpeggiated than it does strummed, but it's still a cool effect. You can also easily slide into an open position C from there, as it's the same fingering moved up 2 frets.

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Reply:518 days 1 hours 51 minutes ago
Member: Richey

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I've done the same thing. Along those same lines, I like chords like this:

0 1 3 0 3 0

and so forth all the way up the neck. I use those kids of chords all the time, expecially in acoustic stuff. To me there is just something about an open string that sounds different. I love the way it sounds. I play a lot of bar chords but I prefer the "fullness" of open chords.

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Reply:486 days 7 hours 32 minutes ago
Member: Mike Philippov

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I love add9 chords (especially minor)... the formula is 1 b3 5 9

Also half diminished chords RULE!!! (especially when functioning as predominant chords in a minor key) The formula is 1 b3 b5 b7

This progression is awesome: iadd9 ii half dim. V7 i As a matter of fact, its the progression I use in my video thats in my blog (the lesson on a sweep picking lick)

Mike Philippov

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