Chord Of The Week 24/10/15 - the Cyndi Lauper 'True Colors' Am9 chord

bigjon · October 2015

More from the series of good chords from unfashionable music. This week, the first chord of Cyndi Lauper's True Colors, which is a sublime finger-picked Am9 chord, at 10 seconds in the video linked below. Once again, there are no 3rd or 6th intervals between one note and the next in the chord.

Am9: x02413

bigjon · October 2015

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carlos · October 2015

Interesting but that's my favourite Cmaj7 shape minus the A of course. So I'll see it as Cmaj7/A

Sambostar · October 2015

Nice to see some Cyndi Lauper fans. I do a great rendition of Time After Time. It's great on the acoustic.

viz · October 2015

Talk about making things complicated - I've always played that barred at the 5th - 5 7 9 5 8 (5), I should have asked you BJ!

mike_l · October 2015

viz said:

Talk about making things complicated - I've always played that barred at the 5th - 5 7 9 5 8 (5), I should have asked you BJ!

I don't remember seeing you ever play anything resembling a barre chord, shred and arpeggios plenty, but never a barre chord

viz · October 2015

bigjon · October 2015

Sambostar said:

Nice to see some Cyndi Lauper fans. I do a great rendition of Time After Time. It's great on the acoustic.

The ultimate 'acoustic' version of Time After Time is surely

Sambostar · October 2015

Our version is better than that. I don't like listening to other people's versions anyway. For one I likle to delude myself that I'm unique and two, anything you hear, it influences you.

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Chord Of The Week 24/10/15 - the Cyndi Lauper 'True Colors' Am9 chord

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