Post the chord that is currently doing it for you!

hotpickups

JerkMoans said:

thegummy said:

How does one actually play that?

Never mind, I got it. Feels a bit awkward though.

That's why I'm still struggling with it

Sure that's it? I've seen many professional guitarists play that tune and definitely ain't that fingering. Gonna be an easier way 

bluechargeboy

terada said:

Eadd9

E - 0
A - 2
D - 4
G - 1
B - 0
E - 0

I have a little sequence that I play around that chord:

024100

034100

024100

014100

The 014100 is a little tinker!

JerkMoans said:

E - X

A - 6

D - 8

G - 10

B - 8

E - 6

Crikey!

Phil_aka_Pip

thegummy said:

Tristan chord (Wagner opera):

E - X

A - 8

D - 9

G - 8

B - 9

E - X

Isn't that F-7-5 (the half-diminished chord I referred to earlier) ?

JerkMoans

hotpickups said:

JerkMoans said:

thegummy said:

How does one actually play that?

Never mind, I got it. Feels a bit awkward though.

That's why I'm still struggling with it

Sure that's it? I've seen many professional guitarists play that tune and definitely ain't that fingering. Gonna be an easier way 

Would very happily be educated in an easier way as it's a fiendish thing for my delicate hands...  For years played the whole thing half a step down in open 'A' which makes it a whole load easier but in a fit of Puritanism decided to try to master (what I thought was) the proper way...

1979

@JerkMoans that chord is so nice to play! A friend of mine lays down the notes on the 8th fret with the middle and ring fingers first and then the root and 10th fret afterwards. Surely there must be an easier alternative though guys?

JerkMoans

1979 said:

@JerkMoans that chord is so nice to play! A friend of mine lays down the notes on the 8th fret with the middle and ring fingers first and then the root and 10th fret afterwards. Surely there must be an easier alternative though guys?

Perhaps the 'full' sound comes from having two guitarists, so one can cover the higher notes which are always muted at best when I try it.  Still persevering, though.

robgilmo

thegummy said:

robgilmo said:

LuttiS said:

I like A.

It's no nonsense and gets the job done.

Checking in the odd D or even E takes it to a whole new level.

Sounds like some crazy advanced jazz hocus pocus

It's used a lot in Russian freestyle experimental hard bop, and some Transylvanian folk music.

clarkefan

JerkMoans said:

1979 said:

@JerkMoans that chord is so nice to play! A friend of mine lays down the notes on the 8th fret with the middle and ring fingers first and then the root and 10th fret afterwards. Surely there must be an easier alternative though guys?

Perhaps the 'full' sound comes from having two guitarists, so one can cover the higher notes which are always muted at best when I try it.  Still persevering, though.

Absolutely keep persevering, that's how she did it, that's the fun of this stuff!  It's like when Sting used to play Message in a Bottle post-Police on an acoustic with will-do-the-same-job chords, wrong

Maybe Wendy was sitting down on stage for that recording to be fair, I can't remember.  I do remember that the live performance in the film was the actual version on the record.

Freebird

robgilmo said:

LuttiS said:

I like A.

It's no nonsense and gets the job done.

Checking in the odd D or even E takes it to a whole new level.

Add in a B minor and I guarantee it will sound just like heaven.

lasermonkey

I like A min (add 9)

E -0
B -0
G -5
D -2
A -0
E -X

thegummy

Phil_aka_Pip said:

thegummy said:

Tristan chord (Wagner opera):

E - X

A - 8

D - 9

G - 8

B - 9

E - X

Isn't that F-7-5 (the half-diminished chord I referred to earlier) ?

It is actually the same notes but the Tristan chord is in the key of A minor so it isn't the degrees that you posted.

Sounds the same when played with no context though obviously

ewal

As I play in alternative tunings nearly all the time, I very rarely know the name of the chord I'm playing or the key I'm playing in...

Now back on topic ..

bluechargeboy

We do a tune in (quickly googles) A phrygian dominant(!) and the x7878x version of that Tristan chord resolves nicely to A major when using that scale. Or something.

stimpsonslostson

It's a simple c#m for me at the moment. I'm learning Drag My Body by Hot Water Music. 

Phil_aka_Pip

thegummy said:

Phil_aka_Pip said:

thegummy said:

Tristan chord (Wagner opera):

E - X

A - 8

D - 9

G - 8

B - 9

E - X

Isn't that F-7-5 (the half-diminished chord I referred to earlier) ?

It is actually the same notes but the Tristan chord is in the key of A minor so it isn't the degrees that you posted.

Sounds the same when played with no context though obviously

Hmmm ... with respect to A thats b6 9 b5 7 or put another way maj9(#11,b13) ?  a very strange altered chord!

thegummy

Phil_aka_Pip said:

thegummy said:

Phil_aka_Pip said:

thegummy said:

Tristan chord (Wagner opera):

E - X

A - 8

D - 9

G - 8

B - 9

E - X

Isn't that F-7-5 (the half-diminished chord I referred to earlier) ?

It is actually the same notes but the Tristan chord is in the key of A minor so it isn't the degrees that you posted.

Sounds the same when played with no context though obviously

Hmmm ... with respect to A thats b6 9 b5 7 or put another way maj9(#11,b13) ?  a very strange altered chord!

It's from the Wagner Opera Tristan und Isolde, it's very well known as a really unusual chord.

It's getting beyond my understanding of music theory at that level. Hopefully I will learn up to that level in the future.

The Wikipedia article is an interesting read. It seems there's some debate among music theory academics about exactly what is going on with it.

mudslide73

I love a good old sus2... b sus2 sounds very lovely indeed to these cloth ears.

francer

thegummy said:

Phil_aka_Pip said:

thegummy said:

Phil_aka_Pip said:

thegummy said:

Tristan chord (Wagner opera):

E - X

A - 8

D - 9

G - 8

B - 9

E - X

Isn't that F-7-5 (the half-diminished chord I referred to earlier) ?

It is actually the same notes but the Tristan chord is in the key of A minor so it isn't the degrees that you posted.

Sounds the same when played with no context though obviously

Hmmm ... with respect to A thats b6 9 b5 7 or put another way maj9(#11,b13) ?  a very strange altered chord!

It's from the Wagner Opera Tristan und Isolde, it's very well known as a really unusual chord.

It's getting beyond my understanding of music theory at that level. Hopefully I will learn up to that level in the future.

The Wikipedia article is an interesting read. It seems there's some debate among music theory academics about exactly what is going on with it.

According to the interwebs Radiohead use it on the track Idioteque

bluechargeboy

What is this nice chord called?

133010

terada

bluechargeboy said:

terada said:

Eadd9

E - 0
A - 2
D - 4
G - 1
B - 0
E - 0

I have a little sequence that I play around that chord:

024100

034100

024100

014100

The 014100 is a little tinker!

Thanks for these - blimey that 013100 has me completely beat - even on a J45 with the shorter scale 

thecolourbox said:

I'm enjoying open string suspended notes at the moment, mostly alternating between the following two chords

Dadd9 xx0770
To
Aadd9 x07600

And back again. Open strings to get the added 9th on each really ring through nicely

Those are lovely, I'll probably loose my evening to those alongside the Eadd9!