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What's the best chord? Why?


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Of course there's no "Best Chord"! But if you think for 5 seconds or less, you'll answer that question with that "one cool chord you always gravitate to"!

 

If this thread is populated by a collection of those, it will become an awesome "Lesson Loft" resource.

 

Guidelines:

 

-Post your Best chord (with the fingering included) with a short explanation of why it's the "best."

 

-Discussions over who's "best" is better are discouraged.

 

-Discussions over chord theory are discouraged (the goal is to create a thread of thousands of cool chord voicings that we can all pick through).

 

-Everyone is encouraged to participate. Everyone. It doesn't mater how long you've been playing.

 

-No chord is too simple to the the best. If it's E5, then it's E5!

 

-Only one "best chord" per post. Multiple consecutive posts by one person are discouraged. If you're tempted, take a moment and choose which is really your "best"

 

I'll start in the next post. Please use it as your model. Thanks and have fun!

 

Jon

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My best chord is Cmaj7/E played like this:

 

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Because it sounds stable yet conflicted, resolved yet tense.

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my favourite chord is this, I think it could be called many things, Gmaj7#5 maybe?

 

-0-

-7-

-8-

-9-

-10-

-0-

 

Why?..it's the James Bond chord!!! need I say more!!

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I love the voicing of Major & Minor Add 9 chords strummed upward.

 

 

D Maj Add 9 D Min Add 9

--5-- --5--

--7-- --6--

--9-- --9--

--7-- --7--

--5-- --5--

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I've been favoring this lately, which can be a lot of different chords:

 

x

4

3

6

3

x

 

It can be: Abmaj7, Cm7, Fm7, Gm(phrygian), Ebsus, Bb7sus, and probably a few altered dominants.

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Got to be G for me. It was really the first chord I learned and got really good at switching to other chords from it.

 

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All joking aside, I really do like an open D power chord with an A as the root.

 

-x-

-x-

-x-

-0-

-0-

-x-

 

Just mute the other strings an let that ring out. I love shaking the guitar for vibrato and letting it feedback.

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Emajor with a lower octave E on the bottom ... preferably with the hammer on from the 9th fret . Just cause

 

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-9-h-11--

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Got to be G for me. It was really the first chord I learned and got really good at switching to other chords from it.


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That's the first thing I hit when I pick a guitar. You can always tell from the G if you'll like the sound - and if it's in tune!

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Anyone know what this one's called?? I have it in a song I'm working on. Sounds very gloomy.

 

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--------7---------

--------5---------

--------6---------

 

Standard tuning.

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