Members psmurf Posted July 9, 2003 Members Posted July 9, 2003 This is not exactly rocket science, but I figured I would throw this out there for anyone experimenting with chord textures (or maybe to inspire someone to start experimenting). I'm very fond of using very thin chords consisting of usually 3 notes ... these sound great with a nice tube overdrive but I have actually never heard other players use them (well maybe john frusciante). I'm just removing the 'excess' notes in some common chord shapes to create a more hollow sound. I love huge sounds (I listen to lots of shoegazer if any of you guys are familiar) but I like to try to imply huge sounds rather than force a big muddy chord down the listeners throat. Anyway you can get a lot of mileage out of these little sounds: major: (before and after)e----------b--7----7--g--7----x--d--7----7--a--5----5--e---------- minor:e----------b--6----6--g--7----x--d--7----7--a--5----5--e---------- maj7: (our third goes away, but no problem, let the vocalist fill in the third or just leave it out)e----------b--7-------g--6----6--d--7----7--a--5----5--e---------- dom7: (I never actually play this one, but just to be thorough ..)e----------b--7-------g--5----5--d--7----7--a--5----5--e---------- You can also remove the 5th instead of the doubled root, although you don't really technically have a chord anymore, you have a third with an octave: majore----------b--7----7--g--7----7--d--7----x--a--5----5--e---------- major chopped down to an octave (just to put things in perspective) e----------b--7-------g--7----7--d--7----x--a--5----5--e---------- these chords can also be mixed into progressions with 3 note power chords, octaves, double/triple stops, muted string rhythms, etc ... If anyone else knows non-jazz chord voicings that have an interesting texture please post em.
Members copperhead Posted July 12, 2003 Members Posted July 12, 2003 Here's one I use - works well for distortion, this would be used in place of an A Barre chord: E------------------------------ B------------------------------ G---6------------------------- D---5------------------------- A---X-------------------------- E---5---------------------------
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