Uncommon chords

[garryireland]

Hi guys, making some good headway on the gdad chords, just wondering what chords most players use here. Im assuming those first position chords wear a bit thin after a while. I got bored using them so now experiment up the neck. For instance, a nice dmaj is 7700. Better than the old 2000 i was using!

[Pete Braccio]

I use lots of open strings, so lots of these are actually implied chords:

D. 7000 7090 7050 0450
G. 0550 7500 0555
A. 9700 0777 8700
E. 09 11 0 9900
C. 5500
F. 5300

I think this is all correct. I don't have an instrument handy to check

[NotMelloCello]

WTH? Don't understand your post at all.

[AlanN]

Yeah, some are just plain wrong. All have open E string, do you mean x there (not played)?

[garryireland]

WTH? Don't understand your post at all.

If you dont understand it then why did you waste your time commenting on it?
Obviously other people understand it just fine

[garryireland]

Yeah, some are just plain wrong. All have open E string, do you mean x there (not played)?

That would be open d string, not e

[Miko]

I use lots of open strings, so lots of these are actually implied chords:

D. 7000 7090 7050 0450
G. 0550 7500 0555
A. 9700 0777 8700
E. 09 11 0 9900
C. 5500
F. 5300

I think this is all correct. I don't have an instrument handy to check

All of your D chords are ninths, unless you're not letting the open e string ring.Of your G chords, the first is a sixth the second a 6/9,and the third is a ninth. Of your A chords the second one's a ninth and the third is a flat 5, which in my experience is usually played as a 7b5, which would be 8500. Your C chord is a sixth. Your F chord is a major seventh. Your last E chord is a suspended fourth. I can't make heads or tails of the earlier ones. I assume you play a lot of jazz.

[Mandotarian]

All of your D chords are ninths, unless you're not letting the open e string ring.Of your G chords, the first is a sixth the second a 6/9,and the third is a ninth. Of your A chords the second one's a ninth and the third is a flat 5, which in my experience is usually played as a 7b5, which would be 8500. Your C chord is a sixth. Your F chord is a major seventh. Your last E chord is a suspended fourth. I can't make heads or tails of the earlier ones. I assume you play a lot of jazz.

I believe they are referring to chords in

G-D-A-D tuning

[Miko]

I believe they are referring to chords in

G-D-A-D tuning

Ah! Should have seen that. My bad!

[Miko]

The title of the thread sparked my interest. Should have noticed what forum it was in. Thought we were talking m
andolins.

[AlanN]

Same here, carry on.

[Baron Collins-Hill]

I use an almost entirely different set of chords on GDAD tuned instruments than the standard GDAE. Here are some of my favorites:

7050, 7000: D, no third
7400, 2400: D with third
2440: Dmaj7
0550: G no third
0520: G with third
0420: Gmaj7 (one of my favorites)
9970: Em no third
9-12-10-0: Em7
6400: F#m
5500: C no third
5530: C no third more focused

As you can see, I never fret the high D with any of these chords, but really only think of them as chords without extensions unless I stated it in the chord name (for example C chord 5530 has a D, but when you are constantly working the open high D string, it tends to fade in to the background and become a rhythmic thing with a little tonal color instead of a blazingly obvious and out of place extension. I use these chords for trad, even though some of them are a little outside the tradition. If i need to play in other keys outside D major, G major, Em, I capo up. Sometimes I will play in Am out of open position, but often I gravitate towards capoing to 2 and getting a little crunch out of my G chord with an A in the bass 0330 with a capo on 2. (or you could think about it as an A7 chord)

For jazz I tend to stick to 3 note voicing, forgoing the high D altogether and use voicings like 779x for D major, 7-10-9-x for D7, 7-9-10-x for G major, 7-9-8 for G7, and slide those G shapes up for A chords.

Thanks,
Baron

[Lord of the Badgers]

my favourite arppegiated riff is 4 0 4 0 > 3 0 3 0 (GDADtuning). kind of proggy

i like using 0 9 10 0 as a G and whatever 9 11 0 0 is....

also, i like back & forth on:
2 0 4 0 > 0 4 5 0

[garryireland]

I use an almost entirely different set of chords on GDAD tuned instruments than the standard GDAE. Here are some of my favorites:

7050, 7000: D, no third
7400, 2400: D with third
2440: Dmaj7
0550: G no third
0520: G with third
0420: Gmaj7 (one of my favorites)
9970: Em no third
9-12-10-0: Em7
6400: F#m
5500: C no third
5530: C no third more focused

As you can see, I never fret the high D with any of these chords, but really only think of them as chords without extensions unless I stated it in the chord name (for example C chord 5530 has a D, but when you are constantly working the open high D string, it tends to fade in to the background and become a rhythmic thing with a little tonal color instead of a blazingly obvious and out of place extension. I use these chords for trad, even though some of them are a little outside the tradition. If i need to play in other keys outside D major, G major, Em, I capo up. Sometimes I will play in Am out of open position, but often I gravitate towards capoing to 2 and getting a little crunch out of my G chord with an A in the bass 0330 with a capo on 2. (or you could think about it as an A7 chord)

For jazz I tend to stick to 3 note voicing, forgoing the high D altogether and use voicings like 779x for D major, 7-10-9-x for D7, 7-9-10-x for G major, 7-9-8 for G7, and slide those G shapes up for A chords.

Thanks,
Baron

I like that emin, nice sound thanks

[Dobe]

One of my favorite oddball fingerings.

[Colin Lindsay]

just wondering what chords most players use here.

I have absolutely no idea most of the time. Most of what I play isn’t a full chord anyway, I never seem to use all the strings at once, but I have a habit of leaving open strings for harmony. Don’t ask me what on earth that makes the chord.

[garryireland]

I have absolutely no idea most of the time. Most of what I play isn’t a full chord anyway, I never seem to use all the strings at once, but I have a habit of leaving open strings for harmony. Don’t ask me what on earth that makes the chord.

Can i ask Colin how do you figure out what key you are playing in? Excuse my ignorance on the subject

[Colin Lindsay]

Can i ask Colin how do you figure out what key you are playing in? Excuse my ignorance on the subject

I usually know the basic key of the song; but after that it’s just a matter of knowing the chords and fingerings well enough to be able to move about and adapt whilst keeping the body of the tune or song intact. Play one string and see how that sounds… if it’s correct all the other appropriate chords and fingerings will automatically fit. If you know all the variations of a particular chord there’s no reason why you can’t play it anywhere on the neck or using any or all of the strings. Sometimes this is only two harmonising strings - last night when accompanying singers I was using the two bottom strings for bass then jumping to the top two for frills between the verses.
My old band used to feature a web page on each of the musicians and mine carried the joke: Colin starts every tune the same way… “What key are we in?”….

In fact I just checked and the website is still there…!
http://www.voiceofthebann.com/bio2