Chord Of The Week 14/11/15 - The Adventures 'Broken Land' Gsus2 Harmonics chord

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More in this series of great chords by unfashionable bands, although the Youtube description tells me this was the most-played single on Radio 1 during 1988 (Really? More than Stock, Aitken & Waterman etc?)

There's some lovely of-its-time strat work on the Adventures album 'Sea Of Love', and there's a great fill in this song at 2:03 over a G chord which culminates in a high set of ringing harmonics. It may have involved an overdub or two, but I can get a pretty good approximation using partial stopping and natural harmonics, which I will denote in plain text with square brackets [ ]. My version of the chord is

Gsus2: 3 [5] [5] [5] x 3

Thumb on the 6th string, first finger on the 1st string and muting the 2nd string, and third finger resting across the 3rd, 4th, and 5th strings at the fifth fret to get the natural harmonics. It's a real jaw-dropper to end a melodic fill!

Today's chord is at 2:05 - 

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