Chord Of The Week 15/11/14 - chords with open E & B strings xxxx00

bigjon

You can get lots of lovely sounds by combining different chord-shapes on the bottom four strings with the ringing chiming sound of the open 1st and second strings. It's not very fashionable, but the one that comes first into my head is 'Mandela Day' by Simple Minds, which is F#m7add11 2xx200. Also in a Metallica song, can never remember which one but @mike_l will know, the sequence descends through E5 079900 to D5add6add9 x57700 to Cmaj7 x35500. And in A Design For Life by Manic Street Preachers, the picky riff is built around Cmaj7 x35500.

Here are the useable CAGED shapes:

Cmaj7: x32000

Asus2 (or A5add9): x02200

G6: 320000

E: 022100

Em: 022000

E5: 022400

E7: 020100

D5add6add9: xx0200

And here is a catalogue of 42 useable xxxx00 chords in alphabetical order - 

Asus2 or A5add9: x02200

Aadd9: x02600 or 577600

Amadd9: x02500 or 577500

A9: x05600 or 575600

Am9: x05500 or 535500

Amaj9: x06600 or 546600

Bm7add11: x20200

Bsus4: x24400

Badd4: 799800

B7sus4: x24200

Cmaj7 x32000 or x35500 or 8 10 10 9 0 0

C#m7: x42400 or x46600

C#m9: x46800 or 979800

D6add9: x54200

Dmadd9add13: x53200

D5add6add9: xx0200 or x57700

Dm9add13: x53500

E: 022100

Em: 022000

E5: 022400 or 079900

E7: 020100

Em7: 02000

Emaj7no3rd: 079800

Em9: 024000

Eadd9:024100

Fmaj7#11: 133200

F#m7add11: 244200

F#7add4: 244300

G6: 320000

G6add9: 320200

G#maddb6: 466400 (frequently used as a sub for Emaj7)

bigjon

Chord of the week index updated with 67 discussions at http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/598/chord-of-the-week-index - I've had to split it into 2 posts as it's now too big for a single post!

viz

For some reason I'm doing a lot of 567800 and 11 10 9 8 0 0 at the moment with B in the altered dominant. Or 456700 as an E dominant. You'll have to tell me the chord names though!

mike_l

I think the song @bigjon is refering to is "Call of the Ktulu", but I'm not 100%

I'll check when I get home.

mike_l

Welcome Home (Sanitarium) from Master of puppets has a nice picked clean riff

0240xx

0350xx

0570xx

 

not_the_dj

Alice in Chains ''No Excuses" uses the A, B and G barre chords with open top E and B strings.

mike_l

Judas Priests Beyond the Realms of Death has a nice picked chord sequence with open e string.

x24430

x04430

3x4430

02xxxx

42xxxx

with the E5 and F#5 chords played a bit harded to get some dirt on them. 

Rocker

I always 'heard' open strings in Joan Armatrading's music, though I never saw her play live or even watched a video of her playing.

I think that she uses the following pattern on, for example, All the way from America.

O221OO

O776OO

7998OO

No idea what those chords are called apart from the first, which, is E

bigjon

Well if you look carefully at the compendium in my first post you will see that the other two chords are Aadd9 & Badd4!

Lixarto

Noel uses these shapes in a few Oasis songs