so, I mostly play acoustic guitar at a folk orchestra and a couple of folk session, I'd say 90% of the tunes we play are fiddle tunes in G or D. While I am happy to play rhythm guitar for this (I do play some lead melody as well, but competing against 5+ fiddles and about the same squeezeboxes it's the musical equiv of wanking in the dark, as only I know I'm doing it) I'm getting a bit bored of banging out the same old open chords all the time, so I was wondering what I can do to spice it up a bit (I'm thinking of different chord voicings and so on). My knowledge of theory is, at best, poor, though I am trying to change this. TIA.
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also fret 10 if comfy
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is another inversion of G
Another inversion of D
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A bit rubbish if you want to play in A flat or something, though.
I did think of that, but then we do play the odd tune in weirder keys. Will give it some consideration tho, it's not a major hassle to retune.
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Things like open strings ringing out and double instances of the same note can I help chords sound more interesting
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For example if you are in D, instead of playing A like this: 577433, play it like this: 54566x. That's always nice to add spice to folk.
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
here's the thread discussing different ways to play a G chord
http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/999/chord-of-the-week-17-8-13-g-gmaj7
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Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
The A7#5 voicing is down to personal taste. 54566x is fine. I just prefer to leave out the lower 3rd.
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
1. Draw a neck and just write the notes on it
2. Start off with any major or minor chords, work out the 1 3 5, and then just see where you can play any of these 3 notes together on the neck.
the key is that as long as you have any 2 of them you get a "chord" that you can use in rhythm play.
and that concept leads you to an even simpler and really powerful conclusion that you only need two different notes (a "double stop") to be a rhythm player
And that means it becomes so much easier to play rhythm all over the neck
im not saying you need to memorise all the notes all over the neck (although lots of people do say that is a good idea) - more that you just explore the neck while playing along the songs and you get used to a new collection of simple chords in different positions, and that the. Leads you to work out natural (for you) simple changes between chords which might on,y be moving one finger of two
To think that so many people start off playing guitar trying to play 6 string chords near the nut !
Seriously, DADGAD or one of the other open tunings is the way to go, and you can always use a capo for the odd tune in F or Bb or whatever.
Remember - its not a mistake/wrong note - its "jazz".
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