Your favourite chord ~ right now ?¿?

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So, here we go, hot on the heels of "Your Favourite Track", lets explore what we are emotionally responding to and playing yourself ~ right now...


What is your favourite chord ?

~  plus optional, but helpful stuff, if you want to share...

What is the fingering ?

What do you play around it, progression, context, etc ?

Strumed, picked / arpeggiated ?

And if you are the theory type, what more can you tell us ?

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  • BarneyBarney Frets: 614
    I have lots and it depends where it's coming from or going .. but I like this inversion of cmaj7 
    ......3.....
    ......1....
    ......4...
    ......2....
    ......x...
    ......x...
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  • ChrisMusicChrisMusic Frets: 1133
    edited December 2017
    Just to start this off ~
    (actually, no @Barney got there first, thanks, nice chord, I think I need to cut my finger nails)

    my favourite (right now) is  0.11.13.0.0.0

    Formula 1.3.maj7.b3/#2.5.1
    Picked / sequenced / arpegiated   (sounds rank strummed!)

    I guess that is Emaj7#2 (or major/minor), but I suspect that it can be viewed in different ways.

    an interesting clash of major and minor thirds, and the minor third and major 7th  

    bugger all idea what to fit around it, or over it ~ any ideas / theory, etc (this is a "work in progress")

    A less zesty version is 0.2.1.0.0.0
    Eminor/maj7 ?  ~ Formula 1.5.maj7.min3.5.1

    P.S.  I *may* have been listening to a bit too much Nick Johnston recently  

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  • Barney said:
    I have lots and it depends where it's coming from or going .. but I like this inversion of cmaj7 
    ......3.....
    ......1....
    ......4...
    ......2....
    ......x...
    ......x...
    Sounds nice with an F or an A in the bass too  :)

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  • BarneyBarney Frets: 614
    This is a nice one before the 4 chord in a blues..

    ....2....
    ....2...
    ....4...
    ....5...
    ....x..
    ....5..
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  • BarneyBarney Frets: 614
    Barney said:
    I have lots and it depends where it's coming from or going .. but I like this inversion of cmaj7 
    ......3.....
    ......1....
    ......4...
    ......2....
    ......x...
    ......x...
    Sounds nice with an F or an A in the bass too  :)
    Yeah it gives a 13th sound :)
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  • Another recent favourite is:

    Amin7#5
    (at least I think that's what it is)
    x.0.3.0.1.0
    Formula 1.#5.7.min3.5

    (or 1st string 3rd, or 1st fret)
    (1.b6.7.min3.5 or b6)
    (or with an F in the bass = 1.0.3.0.1.0)
    or barre it up the neck...

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  • RolandRoland Frets: 8570
    Almost any inversion of Ebmaj7. It gets away from the Em and Am of so much guitar music, and the C and G of many pop songs. x68786 is a good shape because it sits in the middle of the playing area and doesn’t stretch the fingers, but I’ll take alternatives
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  • vizviz Frets: 10637
    edited December 2017
    That awesome magic chord in Stevie Wonder’s Lately, heralding the key change. 

    The song starts in C. 

    After the last verse it’s the “always starts to cry oh cry-yeah - <key change>” bit. The run starts on d minor and is:

    d minor (al-)
    e minor (ways)
    f minor (start)
    g minor (to)
    Ab Major (cry)
    bb minor (oooo)
    c minor (oh-oh)
    Magic Chord (Oh -)
    Transpose to Bb Major. (I’m a man of many wishes)

    And the magic chord is: 76766x (the 6th fret is barred). Great chord. 
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  • stratman3142stratman3142 Frets: 2171
    edited December 2017
    The Mu major, which has the intervals 1,2,3,5

    I discovered it when I did a bit of Googling in my attempt to write a Steely Dan sounding backing track for this month's Solo of the Month competition. If you Google 'Mu major' you'll find plenty of references relating back to Steely Dan.

    It's a bit tricky on guitar, but easy on keyboards.

    I also discovered, in writing the backing track, that the Mu major can be placed over a non-root bass to create and interesting minor voicing: for example F Mu major (ie F, G, A, C) over D.

    Three of the four chords in this month's SotM backing track are based on the Mu major (one over a non-root bass) if you want to hear the sound.
    It's not a competition.
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  • dtrdtr Frets: 1037
    E6 (as a better ending for a ragtime blues than the E7 I'd been playing before)
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  • MegiiMegii Frets: 1670
    Noodling around and I discovered this one for an E minor type chord 05707x - or sometimes nice to include the high E string 057070. And then if you change the note on the low E string, you can get a nice B minor type chord i.e. 75707(0).

    [ just out of interest, these chord voicings remind me of something I've heard somewhere on the Bark Psychosis album Hex - , not sure if they are exactly the same or not, but for me they do evoke a similar kind atmosphere/mood which I really like ]
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  • And another for the pot...

    Sweet D chord

    x56430

    Formula 1:3:maj7:1:9

    or add a 5th in the bass with your thumb

    or x56422 for a unison on the maj7

    or x56400 for maj6, maj7 and 9 ~ nice

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  • These are sweet baby Gs, Zeus !

    3x3211 or 3x3200 or 3x3100

    also nice in sequence...

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  • F#min7+11

    2x2200

    or variations
    4x4400
    5x5500
    3x5500
    have fun !

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  • Fmaj6maj7+9 (is this a thing?)

    130000  or 132000

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  • You could put it all together and finish with E9 or "E9+11 androgynous" (without a 3rd) (sus?) mebee ?

    0x4100 or 0x4200
    or fill it out ~ 024100

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  • Another recent favourite is:

    Amin7#5
    (at least I think that's what it is)
    x.0.3.0.1.0
    Formula 1.#5.7.min3.5
    I've been obsessed with all the inversions of that recently - the B version (x.2.5.2.3.x - Bm7#5) is the same as x.0.0.0.0.x (A9sus) and x.5.7.4.8.x (D6sus) and x.10.9.7.10.x (G2). I think Joni Mitchell had a guitar tuned to one of the inversions - if you just move it around you get a wonderful Mitchellesque jazzy thing happening. It can function as a minor chord, and also as a scale root major (for example the inversion of the chord above x.5.7.4.8.x with another G in the bass), and a dominant (the A9sus mentioned above).

    (By root major I mean like a Cmaj7 in the key of C major, but in that case it would be G2 with no 7th)

    I have no idea how it works, though.
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  • 57Deluxe57Deluxe Frets: 7320
    Em - always Em cos it gives so much
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  • AdjiAdji Frets: 142
    tFB Trader
    Just to start this off ~
    (actually, no @Barney got there first, thanks, nice chord, I think I need to cut my finger nails)

    my favourite (right now) is  0.11.13.0.0.0

    Formula 1.3.maj7.b3/#2.5.1
    Picked / sequenced / arpegiated   (sounds rank strummed!)

    I guess that is Emaj7#2 (or major/minor), but I suspect that it can be viewed in different ways.

    an interesting clash of major and minor thirds, and the minor third and major 7th  

    bugger all idea what to fit around it, or over it ~ any ideas / theory, etc (this is a "work in progress")

    A less zesty version is 0.2.1.0.0.0
    Eminor/maj7 ?  ~ Formula 1.5.maj7.min3.5.1

    P.S.  I *may* have been listening to a bit too much Nick Johnston recently  
    What a nerdy thread, I love it!

    You'd have to call the G# and Ab to be enharmonically correct.

    Then its a version of EmMaj7addb11. Pretty nice and disgusting both at the same time haha.

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  • This Eb+/F as heard in Pat Metheny's acoustic arrangement of Last Train Home.  

    Eb+/F --7-- --8-- --8-- --x-- --8-- --x--

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