Timeline for Why only root versions of chords?
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| Dec 29, 2021 at 3:54 | history | edited | Aaron | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Closed -> Close (per https://music.stackexchange.com/q/105497/70803)
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| Jan 26, 2021 at 13:53 | comment | added | Tim | That's as maybe - whatever 'air quotes' are. It's obvious that E and A shape barre chords are more common. They're basically easier to fret, they also have the facility to be changed into major, minor, seventh, major seventh, minor seventh very easily. The other open barred shapes aren't so adjustable. But C and G shapes do lend themselves to particular voicing preferences, that E and A don't. We may as well agree to disagree. I'm only going on 60 odd yrs playing! | |
| Jan 26, 2021 at 13:37 | comment | added | Michael Curtis | It seems you need a lot of air quotes with "easy" and "preferred" to make all that work. The is a reason E and A form barre chords are common. | |
| Jan 26, 2021 at 8:29 | comment | added | Tim | As I say, my preferred is 032010, but 332010 is easily playable - and I have small hands. Pinky covers bottom two strings. Barred C and G shapes work easily - for me at least. | |
| Jan 25, 2021 at 23:31 | comment | added | Michael Curtis | "Preferred?" Of the four fingerings it's the only one possible for barring. How would you bar the other three when they use four fingered strings? How are you going to play 032013, for example, barred on fret 2? E and A forms are easily barred across the whole neck. The others are nowhere near as practical and some are just not possible. | |
| Jan 25, 2021 at 16:07 | comment | added | Tim | Check your C chord again. 032010, 332010, 332013, 032013 are all available iversions. When barred, 032010 is the preferred shape - 2nd inversion inc. bottom string, or root without. | |
| Dec 3, 2020 at 18:13 | comment | added | Tim | I think it would be what I call it anyway - CAGE. | |
| Dec 3, 2020 at 17:52 | comment | added | Michael Curtis | Yes, except it should then be called EADGC, but that isn't a cute mnemonic. | |
| Dec 3, 2020 at 16:52 | comment | added | Tim | This is about the only place where CAGED makes much sense to me. Take each of the open shapes, and they can (with the exception of D) be moved anywhere on the neck, using a barre - full 6 string chords. I have the span of an octave on piano, so small hands, but have used all these shapes for years. Even the D shape is transferrable, using 5 top strings. The C shape works just fine say making a D chord with barre on 2 - x54232. But my point was specifically about A, C and D chords - which, even as open, rarely get shown with strings 6 and 5(forD) anything but muted. | |
| Dec 3, 2020 at 16:27 | history | answered | Michael Curtis | CC BY-SA 4.0 |