Favorite Non-Moveable Chord Voicings?

[sully75]

I am still working on the Barry Galbraith arrangement of "Last Night When We Were Young" and I really like this chord. I was just wondering if people have other trick open string chords like this that aren't moveable but make the guitar sound more like a harp or piano.

[AllanAllen]

Johnny Smith did this a lot. Used to use drop D tuning for the low drone.

You might enjoy this album if you like that sound. There are YouTube transcriptions.

[rpjazzguitar]

Good sources for open string chords:

Almir Chediak's songbooks. Lots of clever open string voicings. Chord grids and lead sheets. He has a 5 volume Bossa Nova series and a bunch of others for specific composers.

Guinga is a master of this. There is a book of his older material, not sure about a newer edition. Standard notation for how he actually plays the tunes - with some astonishing voicings. Don't get hurt.

I believe that Marcus Tardelli is another Brazilian master worth checking out, but I don't know if he has a book.

[wolflen]

I am still working on the Barry Galbraith arrangement of "Last Night When We Were Young" and I really like this chord. I was just wondering if people have other trick open string chords like this that aren't moveable but make the guitar sound more like a harp or piano.

Have you any of Ted Greens work?

try Tedgreene.com

It is overwhelming the amount of info he has..just read the content of Chord Studies will make your head spin.

In the OTHER section at the bottom are "harp" studies.

If your new to him..he wrote out all these lessons by hand..his dedicated students edited them to be more viewer friendly

[Bob_Ross]

This is probably going to sound obnoxiously contrarian, but hear me out: My favorite "non-moveable chord voicings" are the ones that are moveable

...meaning that the same shape of fretted notes plus open strings can be used at a number of locations on the fingerboard ...but they'll never yield the same chord quality. They just happen to yield a usable (and useful) sonority in more than one position.

[Mick-7]

I am still working on the Barry Galbraith arrangement of "Last Night When We Were Young" and I really like this chord. I was just wondering if people have other trick open string chords like this that aren't moveable but make the guitar sound more like a harp or piano.

Attached are some I'm shared before, there are many more. Some of my favorite open string chords are movable.

I use open strings a lot, e.g., in When Sunny Gets Blue, end of B section:

[pauln]

This is probably going to sound obnoxiously contrarian, but hear me out: My favorite "non-moveable chord voicings" are the ones that are moveable

...meaning that the same shape of fretted notes plus open strings can be used at a number of locations on the fingerboard ...but they'll never yield the same chord quality. They just happen to yield a usable (and useful) sonority in more than one position.

Yes, example, the last half of the B section of The Beatles' "In My Life"

x x 11 11 10 0 "F#m" (F# Minor 7th)
x 9 9 8 0 0 "B" (B Suspended 4th Add Flat 11th)
x 0 7 7 6 0 "Dm" (D/A Minor Add 9th)
x 7 7 6 0 0 "A" (A Major Add 2nd)

[docsteve]

Has anyone ever played any Villa-Lobos? He is doing this all the time.


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[joe2758]

in the key of A min I like

xx0201

and

4xx430

[Mick-7]

in the key of A min I like

xx0201
and
4xx430

x-x-0-2-0-1 is a common 9th chord (G9).

I'd add an note to 4-x-x-4-3-0, that is, 4-x-4-4-3-0 (E9) or: 4-x-3-4-3-0 (E7b9).

Also: 4-x-4-3-1-0 (Ab9#5), or (Ab13) 4-x-4-3-1-1 (Ab13), which could go to: 3-x-3-2-0-0 (G13), and Tonic chord might be: x-3-2-2-0-0,
or: x-3-2-2-0-3 (C^13).