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What about: bar (or Barre) chords, the older cousin of power chords, and middle chords, and base chords. There always seems to be no reference in chord books for diminished chords (which I have written out here (brackets = finger number).
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Did I miss any chords in those categories? I love how the chord diagrams have turned out so far (and I have the GIMP XCF file that I'll look into uploading). I want to be fairly documentive on the open-stringed chords (complete with diagrams), and have a real good summary for bar chords by just using pictures of guitar players playing bar chords. Either I'm going to have to find PD-licensed photos, or make them myself of myself (Hey that's an idea! Immortality through Wikipedia!).
It will get a little long considering I haven't yet even scratched the surface of how many open-stringed guitar chords there are out there. If it gets too annoying I'll split it up, but for now: one article.
What about them, they exist. Do they not deserve a section on the wikipedias? this thing sucks
yeah, i think bass chords deserve a section but the best bit is if you tune the bass to a chord then use that tuning in a song
e.g. g minor is awesome try
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perhaps include a bass chord section —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jedjui ( talk • contribs) 18:17, 11 May 2010 (UTC)
I dont exactly have the software to draw it out, but anyone mind making section for power chords? I mean there is a separate page for it but merging and more detailed Guitar chord page would be certainly nicer.-- WB 00:52, Mar 15, 2005 (UTC)
I wouldn't mind doing examples. Power chords are pretty simple... you can provide three or four examples and pretty much cover the entire range of the guitar. I'm not sure if it needs its own section or deserves a subheading under "bar chords". I'll give it its own section and let fate sort it out I guess.
"Power chord" should remain its own topic for the same reason "major chord" is its own topic. If we need more articles then they'll be "Guitar: Power Chord" or something specific like that. We'll just provide links to those articles as appropriate. Right now I don't see any reason to split off new articles; I'll keep everything I can here for now until the page gets too unwieldly.
I'll get those graphics up for the power chord examples. It usually takes me a few minutes from the xcf template file I made to make the graphics for each chord, so I'll whip up something tonight. -- Zalasur 07:08, Mar 15, 2005 (UTC)
What do you think?:) -- Zalasur 02:00, Mar 16, 2005 (UTC)
Nice! -- WB 03:40, Mar 16, 2005 (UTC)
Is a new section really necessary? A powerchord is, in essence, simply a bass note, perfect fifth and octave.
I'm torn on what to do with the sections... well it's organized now. It needed clean-up. I gotta do that to my other articles too. :^)
I'm going to upload the XCF file (GIMP compatible) to the Wikicommons area. In the meantime, the graphics will be fixed. No more red. -- Zalasur 03:19, Jun 13, 2005 (UTC)
This goes with what the user at top is saying, but the movable forms section is pitifully underwritten. We need something on 5- and 6-string barre chords, arguably the most essential elements for rock-style guitar aside from the power chord. There's also plenty of other movable chords, too, aside from just major, minor, dominant, maj7, and min7.
What is a root note? Some three string cords reference this.
Some chords are missing images.
I propose merging List_of_minor_chord_shapes_for_guitar and List_of_major_chord_shapes_for_guitar into this page because there is really no need for seperate pages and also their titles are crazily long! Any thoughts? PS I take silence as agreement Andeggs 11:29, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
Comments? Andeggs 12:19, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
I believe the fingering for FmajorDform should be
X11243 rather than X11234
Re: FmajorDform I still cant get that right! LOL 1w2y3a4t5t ( talk) 20:32, 14 June 2010 (UTC)
A suggestion: it would make the Chord diagrams section easier to follow if an example diagram were placed alongside it, preferably illustrating as many features of the notation as possible. I'm not a guitarist myself so I don't know what the most appropriate one would be, but I'm sure there's a suitable one. -- Blisco 19:01, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
In the section where chord diagrams are explained, the 4th point is "An O above a vertical line indicates an open string (a string that is played without being fretted)." But what about those cases where the O is not at the top, but over one of the frets, as in the first chord, A(6)? The meaning of this is not explained. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.137.36.15 ( talk) 17:37, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
The article's introduction seemed more about how a guitar is strung and tuned than anything to do with chords. I changed the intro so it explains what makes guitar chords special in contrast to chords in general. -- Trweiss 14:37, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
You can copy the guitar chord template from the Finnish Wikibooks if you like.
Link to the template: [1]. The template contains links to all the images it uses.
Link to the page that instructs in the use of the template: [2]
Why is this not a Wikibook. The parts of it that don't belong on Wikibooks could then be transferred to the article Chord (music). It's very strange to go to the disambig. page for Chord and see the possibilities of a chord in music, and a chord on the guitar - chords, if played on guitar, are the same phenomenon as chords in music in general, just played on guitar. And a tutorial on playing chords on the guitar belongs on wikibooks, not on wikipediaþ -- Sterio 17:41, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
According to Guitar chords#CAGED major chords, the context and the pictures say that we need to mute sixth string for C Major and A Major, and fifth string for D Major. But why do we need to? Since the open sixth string makes E sound, we don't have to mute the sixth string for C and A. The same rule goes to the fifth string also; the open fifth string makes A sound, we don't have to mute the fifth string for D. -- ( talk) 19:35, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
This is flat out incorrect? There's no E in it at all, and you wouldn't include the low A on string 5 90.255.131.238 ( talk) 22:35, 12 January 2021 (UTC)
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PureJadeKid ( talk) 15:08, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I have an indepth couple of series on open position chords and barre/movable chords that I think would be useful as a continuation from the wiki. Please take a look and let me know what you think:
Open chords - http://www.fretjam.com/basic-guitar-chords.html Barre/CAGED - http://www.fretjam.com/guitar-barre-chords.html
Thanks
Please don't use the talk page to advertise your blog, website et cetera. Thank you.
I've created chord diagrams that show the nut of the guitar or fret position. I'm going to replace the diagrams in this article which don't show the nut. If for any reason you would like to revert to the earlier diagrams please do. You can find my diagrams in Wikicommons in the categories: chords in guitar, scales on guitar and guitar technique. I've used the same diagrams for the Wikibook: Guitar (where I've added some jazz exercises and technical exercises). Comments, observations and typo errors please use my talk page. -- Sluffs ( talk) 12:24, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
I think you need to add a Chord progression and alternate fingerings section, or at least a brief discussion of the subject. I was going to add a 'See also' section and a direct wikilink to Chord progression until I read the dire warning (of doom?) to people who add links. Trilobitealive ( talk) 19:57, 28 March 2010 (UTC)
(You may also want to look at Wikibooks article for some more information about writing a brief discussion on the subject.) Trilobitealive ( talk) 20:02, 28 March 2010 (UTC)
In the case of C Major, these notes are C, E and G. The graphical representation on the left shows how left-hand fingering produces:
E on the first string C on the second string G on the third string E on the fourth string C on the fifth string
No note is played on the sixth string.This is because if you played the 6th "E" string, that would become the base note, and therefore, the root note.
That should be fixed, the bass note isn't the root note,if you played a C chord with the 6th string it would become a C chord with E bass note ( a slash chord ). But the root would still be C. —Preceding
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I've been revising this article, with several goals. The simplest is to document it with references. A second goal is to distinguish between chords and chords implemented in particular tunings, while maintaining the emphasis on standard tuning and its chords, per WP:Due Weight.
The theory part discusses basic chords (major, minor, and sevenths) and chord progressions.
I shall try to finish the tuning-free discussion of chords first. Then I would revise the standard tuning chords, following Denyer and Kolb, which seem to be the most mainstream widely used books to which I have access.
For consistency, I plan to describe the theoretical chord and then an implementation in each tuning (and perhaps a third with many, perhaps maximum duplications).
The article would continue to be a mess without more structure. Thus, I've moved all the chords besides major, minor, and dominant sevenths to an "intermediate chords" section. Now, this section emphasizes standard tuning.
Thanks for your patience. A special thanks to Hyacinth for suggestions and constructive criticism. Kiefer .Wolfowitz 19:30, 6 September 2012 (UTC)
Perhaps we can list the sharp enharmonic equivalent in parentheses after the canonical flat? Would that be objectionable? Kiefer .Wolfowitz 18:32, 7 September 2012 (UTC)
Editor Hyacinth tried to clarify the content, however, introducing terms not in Kolb (the cited reference).
The next sentences (in our article) explain how dominant seventh chords are implemented in standard tuning, complete with a diagram and based on citations, so it's clear to the reader that standard tuning has dominant sevenths.
I removed the qualification, because it wasn't based on Kolb officially. Unofficially, I'm happy to restore the qualification if the talk page thinks the qualification is better. Kiefer .Wolfowitz 17:45, 17 September 2012 (UTC)
Obviously that's not true, without qualification.
Again, not true as written.
Alternative to what? Same notes as what? Hyacinth ( talk) 08:43, 18 September 2012 (UTC)
You refer to the definition of "dominant seventh chord" found in dominant seventh chord, however, it appears that you have not looked at that article. The article reads:
This says nothing about semitones, and nothing about close position, root position, or any position.
An unqualified statement that a dominant seventh chord requires severe hand stretching on a guitar in standard tuning is false nonsense. To make such a statement one must not play the guitar, not know what a dominant seventh chord is, or both. Hyacinth ( talk) 03:13, 24 September 2012 (UTC)
Above you refer to the definition of dominant seventh chords in this article. You say you believe it was written by me. Later you say the article is based on Denyer and Kolb. The definition of dominant seventh chords in this article cannot both be written by me and based on Denyer and Kolb. Hyacinth ( talk) 22:07, 25 September 2012 (UTC)
I asked añ expert for help. He wrote the following
RE "drop 2" and "drop 3" voicings. [...] You take a closed voicing of a chord in any inversion, and then take the 2nd (or 3rd) note from the top and drop it down an octave. This often generates a voicing that is playable on the guitar.
For example, the C7 on the right in the pdf. This is a second inversion C7 drop 2. Second inversion means the 5th is the bottom note, so a second inversion C7 would be (low note to high note) G-B♭-C-E. You then take the 2nd note from the top (C) and drop it down and octave. This gives you the C-G-B♭-E that you see above.
A very useful voicing for C7 (or any seventh chord) is a third inversion drop 3. Using C7 as an example, third inversion means the 7th is at the bottom of the chord: B♭-C-E-G. You then take the 3rd note from the top (C again) and drop it an octave, giving you (bottom to top) C-B♭-E-G (use fingers 1-2-4-3).
To act on his explanation, we should find a reliable source discussing such dropped voicings (which are not discussed by Kolb or Denyer). Hyacinth, perhaps you know of a reference discussing this topic? Kiefer .Wolfowitz 20:27, 24 September 2012 (UTC)
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It might be useful to have a list of intermediate chords (and down the road, advanced chords).
There are plenty of sites on the web that have large lists of chords, and many chord dictionaries and encyclopedias exist. Kiefer .Wolfowitz 12:45, 20 September 2012 (UTC)
Chords and chord terminology/numerology predate the adoption of equal-temperament tuning. Following the sources listed, this article defines chords in terms of musical intervals. Presumably other definitions could also pre-ET chord terminology? Kiefer .Wolfowitz 12:43, 24 September 2012 (UTC)
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References on guitarists and musical theory could be helpful. Kiefer .Wolfowitz 14:02, 26 September 2012 (UTC)
In the picture next to the "naive chord" section, the seventh is incorrectly named A# instead of Bb, A# is the augmented sixth of C and not the minor seventh. Someone should fix that, i don't know how to do it. 190.193.250.243 ( talk) 02:55, 27 November 2012 (UTC)
How bizarre is it that the very first picture the reader spots in Guitar Chord is a guy playing sans chords? Just look at the picture! Slide guitar involves playing open strings, as opposed to forming chords on the fret board with the four available fingers of the non-dominant hand. It’s pretty hard to form a chord with a silly cylinder of glass surrounding your finger. How about a picture of someone playing a chord, say Steve Howe for instance, with his amazingly masterful left hand?
Apachegila ( talk) 16:34, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
I want to Link my Blog www.folkguitartabs.blogspot.com . Is it Relevant to this article ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hemanjosko ( talk • contribs) 06:54, 8 August 2015 (UTC)
What is the chord name given where no strings are depressed (so all 6 strings open)? (Assuming standard tuning, of course.) Rarely encountered though I recall when I took ukulele in elementary school we played a song that had such a chord. Gave our chord fingers a break! 68.146.52.234 ( talk) 02:47, 23 August 2015 (UTC)
Guitar chord diagrams are used extensively in this article with no explanation of their meaning, either here, on the tablature page, or anywhere else I can find on Wikipedia. How did this get missed? JMT32 ( talk) 02:51, 7 October 2017 (UTC)
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