Toughest Chord To Play

[BigDaddyLoveHandles]

Originally Posted by JohnW400

Oh yeah!! take that!!

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Ebsus2/Bb

I love "the ole thumb under the neck trick" but that one is for contortionists.

[SwingSwangSwung]

I did a solo guitar arrangement of When You Believe from the movie The Prince Of Egypt. It required this voicing...


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The only way I can make it is to play the G on the 6th string with my thumb and the D on the 1st string with my little finger. But my thumb is not coming from behind the neck, I have to bring it up from below the 1st string so that the palm of my hand is over the fretboard with my tip of my thumb and little fingertip spread a good 9 inches apart.

[bako]

Originally Posted by SwingSwangSwung

I did a solo guitar arrangement of When You Believe from the movie The Prince Of Egypt. It required this voicing...


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The only way I can make it is to play the G on the 6th string with my thumb and the D on the 1st string with my little finger. But my thumb is not coming from behind the neck, I have to bring it up from below the 1st string so that the palm of my hand is over the fretboard with my tip of my thumb and little fingertip spread a good 9 inches apart.

I play cello as well as guitar. For that instrument this is a common thing to do and it's referred to as "thumb position". It probably emerged on cello because that instrument has a severe lack of a cutaway problem. I occasionally use it on guitar when all else fails.

I've seen jazz bassist Ratzo Harris hold down a bass note with his chin so that he can play high up the fingerboard against that note.