Timeline for How to play a G-chord?
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| Jun 9, 2020 at 19:50 | comment | added | Rockin Cowboy | @Tim I think what leftround meant in his 2015 comment is that generally when the lowest note in the chord is not the root note the chord is denoted as a slash chord. But for whatever reason, that 4 string voicing of the G chord (regardless of what you call it) sounds very much like a regular G major chord. Technically leftround might be correct. But - there are some arrangements of some songs where if you fail to include the non root lower note it does not work as well. The voicing in question works as a G and is usually interchangeable with other voicings of G so it is functionally a G. | |
| Jun 9, 2020 at 10:38 | comment | added | Tim | There's another G7 shape you may find useful - 323003 - and even 323001. | |
| Jun 8, 2020 at 18:56 | comment | added | Tim | @leftaroundabout- why is it that a 'correct' chord must have the root at the bottom - root position? If there's someone else playing that underneath, it's not a problem, and even if there's no 'root' note as the lowest, so what? | |
| Jun 10, 2015 at 15:01 | comment | added | amalgamate | Guitarists typically ignore the fact that many of the standard ways they play chords are inversions (what @leftaroundabout was pointing out), unless they are told explicitly to play a specific inversion. For many occasions it does not matter and then for others it does. | |
| Mar 24, 2015 at 20:10 | comment | added | leftaroundabout | Worth to note that, classically speaking, the four-string variant isn't “correct” as a G chord – it is really G/D. Often doesn't matter, certainly not when only strumming chords while an actual bass plays the G below (in fact the sound can get muddy when then the guitar also adds a low G and B), but for solo fingerstyle you'll generally want to add the G on the E-string. | |
| Mar 24, 2015 at 4:27 | history | answered | Rockin Cowboy | CC BY-SA 3.0 |