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Help with a song... A#


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trying to learn a folk song that some people will be singing along with. so I need a little bit of help..

 

I understand this would be an A sharp diminished chord?

 

how would I spell this chord and what is the formula?

 

1, 3, 5b?

 

does anybody have any open string shapes for this chord?

 

thanks for any help..

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sorrry, typo on my part on the formula.

so could I just play it as



---0----
---2---
---3----
--------
-------
--------

I guess that would be correct?



thanks for the help

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You could. The notes are correct in forming the chord, but as to whether the voicing is correct, that is up to you. It depends on where the chord before it is and the where the chord after it is being played. It should be an easy transition from chord to chord. Revoice it so you have the minimum amount of movement as possible. But since it is folk, try to keep that A# in the bass. But if you are moving more towards a gypsy grass style anything goes if you play it convincingly.

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I found that if I just play a C maj chord it sounds fine.

maybe thats totally wrong to play but it goes fine with the singing part over it.

which is just 3 notes, G, F, E

(since its in 3/4 and its only for 1 measure)

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I found that if I just play a C maj chord it sounds fine.


maybe thats totally wrong to play but it goes fine with the singing part over it.


which is just 3 notes, G, F, E


(since its in 3/4 and its only for 1 measure)

 

 

 

C major doesn't have any of the right notes, so it wouldn't work as a substitute too well.

 

Here are two options:

 

Play this voicing for A#dim7:

 

x12020 (low to high)

 

 

Or simply replace it with an F#7 chord. Dim7 chords like that which resolve up a half step (A# -> B) are essentially acting like a V-I progression (F# -> B). If you take an F#7 chord and look at the notes (F# A# C# E) and compare them to the notes of A#dim (A# C# E), you'll see that they're the same except for an F#. Due to the high degree of similarity, they're very interchangeable.

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