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01-14-2011, 04:20 PM #1Open_Tuna Guest
Here's what should be an easy one.
What is the preferred fingering for this half-diminished chord?
xx5666
(I DID actually look around . . . a little.)
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01-14-2011 04:20 PM
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I'd use my middle finger to bar the 6th fret and use my pointer finger to bar the 5th fret. You will not hear any of the notes on the 5th fret besides the G since the 6th fret is barred also.
But that's just me...
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I'm not used to the online tab stuff if I'm reading that right xx5666 I use index and middle fingers. The index catches the 5 and is almost like a bar. Then I use my middle finger as a bar and catch the 666. Think James Brown 9th chord without the root. In fact you could play it like a 9th chord and that would leave your index finger free to play walking bass notes.
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Any fingering. Depends on what I walked down from, or if I want a pivot finger to set something up. Mostly 1-3, sometimes 1-2, occasionally (on nylon) 1-2-3-4.
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Originally Posted by JazzFanatik
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I often use index and pinky. If I need to reach out a whole step on the first string, I use index and middle.
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01-14-2011, 05:15 PM #7Open_Tuna Guest
The index and middle are what I have beeen using, but last night I was fooling around with something like this
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and I started thinking . . . .
Should I be using all four fingers (on both of them)?
But (especially) on the first one (half dim) if you go up high enough it gets real cramped. OTOH, it seems that semi-barring slows me down compared to using all fingers and staying on "top."
Anyways, thanks.Last edited by Open_Tuna; 01-14-2011 at 05:18 PM.
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I use this chord mostly for funk to be honest (like docbop says, the James brown chord! ) can anyone put this chord in context in a simple jazz chord progression?
I know i've also used it as passing chord...but that's pretty much it =/
Anyone have any other ideas?
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01-14-2011, 05:25 PM #9Open_Tuna Guest
I was using it as the "highest" chord in White Christmas.
"Just like the ONES I use to know."
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"It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to finger a chord."
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Originally Posted by Open_Tuna
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Originally Posted by BigDaddyLoveHandles
As to it's usage, it's not just for funk. I use it as often as a -7b5 as I do a 9 chord.
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Originally Posted by Dark Star
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It's also A7+5b9
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X X 5 7 7 7
X X 5 6 6 6
X X 4 4 5 5
X X 4 5 4 5
X X 2 4 3 3
X X 2 3 3 3
X X 0 2 2 2Last edited by bako; 01-14-2011 at 08:05 PM.
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Clearly that is the easiest way to play the m7b5 chords with the root on the D or 4th string. For me, I prefer to use my first and third fingers to play this form. This allows me to use the pinky for add on notes 11th etc.
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X X 5 7 7 7 G maj 7
X X 5 6 6 6 Gm7b5 or Bbm6
X X 2 4 3 3 G6
X X 2 3 3 3 Em7b5 or Gm6
X X 0 2 2 2 F#m/D
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Originally Posted by BigDaddyLoveHandles
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Originally Posted by Dark Star
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DocPop: You are scaring me. It sounds like Jon Damien's Chord palette which also scared me at Berklee.
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Originally Posted by JazzFanatik
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