Curtis P Posted March 30, 2005 Report Share Posted March 30, 2005 Hey I have been writing a slow, yet somewhat heavy riff for a while now, the starting is on acoustic, its a little like This Love by pantera, well, the way the song goes, slow and all, then real heavy, I want the starting (acoustic) to go on for 15 - 25 seconds at the very starting, then repeat the intro (acoustic part) again at the end I have the picking all done, but I want a really tasty chord, I tried a few of the cool sounding ones I know, but anyone else got any ideas? I dont want any Dave Matthews impossible chords though, LOL Curtis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sepultura999 Posted March 30, 2005 Report Share Posted March 30, 2005 i could give you my input but i would need to know what chords you use already, because some chords sound amazing on their own, but when put with another it could be a catastrophe, imo at least. A tab of it would be best, but if you don't want to do that, then that's cool, just the chords should do. -Jamie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curtis P Posted March 31, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 31, 2005 -------------------------------------- ----------------------------0--------- -----0---------0---------0---0------- ---4---4----4----4----4--------4---- -2--------2---------2--------------2- --------------------------------------- Played moderatly slow and on clean, slight chorus I wrote another part this morning ------------------------------------------ ----------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------- --2--------------------------------5(NH) --2--------2------------------0H2H3------ --0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0H2H3----------- Faster, on dirty no chorus so far, thats it Curtis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mledbetter Posted March 31, 2005 Report Share Posted March 31, 2005 I don't have a guitar in front of me.. but two ideas come to mind.. a high chord 0 0 8 7 9 0 That should be b-minor'y For a low one.. 0 0 4 2 0 4 is a G#/E and sounds neat.. Change it to a G/E and it would get darker.. 0 0 4 2 0 3 Again, i don't have a guitar in front of me.. i could be way off but that's a suggestion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curtis P Posted April 1, 2005 Author Report Share Posted April 1, 2005 Thanks!! I will give them all a try tonight when i start playing Curtis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erikbojerik Posted April 1, 2005 Report Share Posted April 1, 2005 -------------------------------------- ----------------------------0--------- -----0---------0---------0---0------- ---4---4----4----4----4--------4---- -2--------2---------2--------------2- --------------------------------------- Curtis ← Add low-E for the root and you have Emsus2. Try this: --0-- * --7-- pinkie* --0-- --7-- ring --5-- index --6-- middle *The two highest notes/strings are optional. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curtis P Posted April 1, 2005 Author Report Share Posted April 1, 2005 what exactly do you mean, add low E to the root, an open note?? or something else?? Curtis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erikbojerik Posted April 2, 2005 Report Share Posted April 2, 2005 --0-- --0-- --0-- --4-- --2-- --0-- (the low E) Here low-E is the root, so you have Em(sus2). --X-- --0-- --0-- --4-- --2-- --X-- Here (your original pattern) B is the root; you have (I think) B5aug (or B5+). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Sorbera Posted April 2, 2005 Report Share Posted April 2, 2005 strum this -6- -6- -0- -x- (that means to mute it) -6- -x- than right after you strum that slide up to -7- -7- -0- -x- -7- -x- It sounds real good with some flanger to strum the first one than right after that you slide up to the second one and do a up stroke, than mute it and do one more down strok. All real rast. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curtis P Posted April 2, 2005 Author Report Share Posted April 2, 2005 --0-- --0-- --0-- --4-- --2-- --0-- (the low E) Here low-E is the root, so you have Em(sus2). --X-- --0-- --0-- --4-- --2-- --X-- Here (your original pattern) B is the root; you have (I think) B5aug (or B5+). ← ahhh, i gotcha, i figured it was something like that Godin, I will try out those chords as well, thanks!! Curtis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Sorbera Posted April 2, 2005 Report Share Posted April 2, 2005 (edited) CODE -------------------------------------- ----------------------------0--------- -----0---------0---------0---0------- ---4---4----4----4----4--------4---- -2--------2---------2--------------2- --------------------------------------- That sounds great on an acoustic thats tuned down half a step Edited April 2, 2005 by Godin SD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alarung Posted April 2, 2005 Report Share Posted April 2, 2005 Talk to your school music teacher about chord theory, and consturction of chord progressions. Go to Musictheory.net and download the interval trainers. Getting to know how chords and scales fit together is an incredible advantage for a songwriter. It seriously makes writing sooooo much easier. All of a sudden you can be humming a melody, and you just know what chords you should put under it. Of course, that WILL eventually come naturally just from playing, but you have to spend a lot of years not doing anything but playing guitar. Experience without education is not nearly as efficient as experience with education. Take a D5 powerchord and a C5 and adapt them to the second riff. D5 C5 ------------------- ------------------- ------7------5---- ------7------5---- ------5------3---- ------------------- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curtis P Posted April 2, 2005 Author Report Share Posted April 2, 2005 CODE -------------------------------------- ----------------------------0--------- -----0---------0---------0---0------- ---4---4----4----4----4--------4---- -2--------2---------2--------------2- --------------------------------------- That sounds great on an acoustic thats tuned down half a step ← haha, thats how i made it up, on acoustic in Eb, but now its on my Electric in C, LOL i wrote another part including the D5 and C5 chords, plus a few more, I like it Curtis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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