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What is THE MOST SOOTHING guitar CHORD?


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so I am going to make this sculpture with some speakers and its going to have a cassette player inside playing a tape loop. fortunately for me I dont have to make a tape loop as I found a 20 second answering machine loop tape at the thrift shop.

 

i want to play one long droning ambient chord and record it to this tape with bucktons of reverb and delay.

 

what do you think is the most soothing guitar chord? one you could listen to forever?

 

is it major? minor? seventh? sixth fifth fourth second? augmented diminished suspended? barred or capo'd? alternate tuning?

 

 

right now I am thinking of just doign an E chord

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I agree with the major7th.

 

Try this:

024100. Eadd9. I can smell Miles Davis "In a silent way" all over it.

 

 

edit. You can real far with add9s. in general. it's that "extra" note that makes a difference. It's actually a fun secret when used properly.

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I agree with the major7th.


Try this:

024100. Eadd9. I can smell Miles Davis "In a silent way" all over it.



edit. You can real far with add9s. in general. it's that "extra" note that makes a difference. It's actually a fun secret when used properly.

 

 

I was coming to list this one...

 

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I'm not quite sure what the most soothing is, but I know what the saddest is...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Okay, the most soothing is probably a E (Add 9)

 

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OK so what I ended up doing is playing a B chord using an E bar shape but alternate tuning.

 

Tuned the low E down to B and tuned the high E down a half step to Eb

 

then i played

 

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The alternate tuning gave it some awesome low end thanks to the low B and in general did have some dissonance tonally while still being just a major chord.

 

SOUNDS LIKE A DUCKTAILS ALBUM BRO

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