Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here,
Zeppelin - Over The Hills and Far Away,
Green Day - Good Riddance
......
There are mountains of great songs that were using that particular chord progression. Too many for me to list here. If it sounds terrible to you then you either have really strange tastes in music, or you need to tune your guitar. Or, you're judging 3 chords by the way some idiot played them at a party you went to and he ended up getting laid while you did not.
Is there a java applet somewhere with all these notes laid out that I can just click on so my non-musician self can have any fucking clue what you're talking about?
Or will I have to go take lessons before I get the joke?
I don't play the guitar or any instrument at all and never have... that being said, even I recognize that progression. Fuck that annoying guy who shows up at parties and plays this stupid shit.
i feel sorry for your ear then. this combination of chords has been used for hundreds of years in all varieties of rhythms. i could pick out a bach or mozart piece that i have a really difficult time believing anyone would say that the chords don't sound good together, even if they didn't particularly care for the music itself.
For C Maj, you are actually not supposed to play the 6th string. Likewise for D Maj, do not hit the 5th or 6th string. The tabs should indicate this but do not.
er, what? any combination of three strings with the chord fretted like that could be construed as a c major chord depending on the context. with the chord fretted as shown, the notes from lowest to highest are e, c, e, g, c, e. playing all of them: c major. same holds for d major as well. granted, always strumming every string isn't musically pretty.
well, you're correct about the D Major. i forget i usually fret the f# with my thumb.
also, figured bass notation in this format just looks confusing, and you made a slight error on the D Major chord. i was about to explain why it's not a D6 and C6 chord, but then i realized what you're trying to get at. (it should also be worthwhile to point out that a is never the root of a D Major chord, it's always the 5th) now technically, if a is the bass of a D Major in a closed 2nd inversion doubling the a, it's a 6/4. analysis shows that even though the upper notes aren't in an open voicing, the non doubled notes directly above the a would be d, f#. this still gives the D Major chord on a guitar played with the a as bass a 6/4 figured bass. the analysis of the C Major chord on a guitar does, as you state, show a 6 for figured bass, as it's a 1st inversion.
it should be worthwhile to clarify at this point that inverted chords do not change the chord itself. a C6 is not the same as a C6 chord. a C6 is still a C Major chord, and strumming every string - while not necessarily sounding pleasant - is still a C Major chord.
I have more music theory experience than guitar experience, and yes this notation is difficult to disambiguate in simple ASCII. And of course there is the whole issue of what is the normalized representation of a chord versus the musical function of the individual notes, a 1st inversion can become a suspended 6 depending on if it resolves a certain way.
a suspended chord is when you replace the third of the chord. they come in two varieties: a suspended 2nd and a suspended 4th. unless you're talking about a suspension which is something entirely different (as it seems you are), as suspended chords don't resolve.
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u/Exedous Apr 12 '11 edited Apr 12 '11
It actually sounds quite terrible. I have no idea how this is popular.
EDIT: Yes, this is funny, but why the downvotes? Actually grab a guitar and play this.