Your most used chord voicings

[mrman93]

Which are your most used chord voicings?

// Gustav

[JohnW400]

xx345x and xx556x

Pick whatever bass note you want

[mr. beaumont]

Wow, pretty much my answer too!

I'll add

x x 5 4 2 x

and

x x 5 6 6 x

and

x x 8 6 5 x


Again, pick a bass note, and feel free to stick something else on top!

Oh, and I'm also really partial to anything with a second or minor second interval, like:

x x 2 4 1 x

[Joe_Reynolds]

All in D

x 9 11 7 10 x < Maj7 voicing with the root on G

10 x x x x 12 < Minor 9 voicing, nice'n'simple

x x x 5 3 2 < 7 voicing for D

[wizard3739]

I can't really say I have any favorites. For me, what I use is likely to be different each time I play a song. I tend to think and play more in terms of favorite chords (many different voicings, extensions & altered dominants) that sound good to me behind each melody line.

wiz

[bob32069]

Take any min7b5 shape and move it up 3 frets. That chord is the V7alt chord in a minor ii V i progression (rootless 7#5b9 to be exact). The first shape is of course the ii chord. Then very nearby is the i chord.

Examples of min ii V i in C:

x 5 6 5 6 x --> x 8 9 8 9 x -->8 x 8 8 8 x
= Dmin7b5, G7#5b9 (no root), Cm7

x x 6 7 6 8 --> x x 9 10 9 11 --> x x 8 8 8 8

x x 3 5 3 4 --> x x 6 8 6 7 --> x x 8 8 8 8 or x x 5 5 4 6

[ohlcv]

+1: JohnW, MrB

also:
x x x 5 3 3

[jeffroi]

With humility : my Cmaj's :
3--5--7--8--10-12--13--15--
3--5--5--8--10-12--13--15--
2--4--5--7--9--12--12--14--
2--5--5--7--9--10--12--14--
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