hey guys,

i was just fooling around on my guitar and i discovered a new chord! it has probably already been played before and some of you might know it but i found it out just by playing! give it a go:

3rd finger on 9th fret, A string
2nd finger on 7th fret, D string
1st finger on 6th fret, G string
4th finger on 9th fret, B string

Bottom E string is dead and top E string is open

GIVE IT A GO! TRY IT OUT AND COMMENT, SAY WHAT YOU THINK!

P.S. A great sequence with it is to play the normal chord and then take your ring finger off and let the A string ring open.
hope you like it

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F# minor 7/9 maybe???

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No no and no

You cant really invent a chord. Any "new" chord is just a modification of a standard chord, and a chord is just notes in a musical scale.

When you get into learning a bit about scales and chord formations you will find that certain notes in a scale work well together and are used to form a chord.

You can play any number of notes at the same time and it will be a chord of some sort, based on some elusive scale, even if it sounds hideous.

Its a good exercise nonetheless. What I would do if i were you is break down the chord and figure out what key or keys it fits into , and then what chord it is a modification of. That will teach you a lot.

Based on the notes, it would be an F#min9. I don't have a guitar here to try it so can't tell you if it's a good F#min9 voicing or whether its best described in a different way.

as you continue to play, you will learn that different variations of chords are all over the fret board. look at the notes closely, you should be able to arpegiate (not sure ifits spelled right) .

just keep it up.

I recommend you look into learning chords and the fretboard using the CAGED method. It shows you how to play any standard maj and minor chord anywhere on the fretboard.

Once you learn the basics of this you can modify any of the chords to make it a 7th, 9th, sus or whatever you want to enable you to play any chord possible on the guitar.

Im only getting to grips with the CAGED method of playing but it is eye opening.

'Zactly. F#min9. I'd play it more simply starting at the fourth fret on the D string, etc.

Andy Summers inserts various forms of F#minor in Message In A Bottle during the little hiatus moments before each new verse. F#min9 works well in that position and also F#min7 (same thing but with the top e left to ring open). Playing it around the second to fourth frets leaves your hand in approximately the right place to begin the new verse.

Today's inane ramble from Ceri...

Cheers - C

http://www.chordbook.com/guitarchords.php

This website let's you create chords with dots on the fingerboard. Then it tells you which chord it is. Then you can strum it.

It's an F#madd2 chord. It's not a ninth chord because there's no dominant seventh.

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YES! Learn the CAGED method. It was this method that helped me learn how to get around the fretboard and solo without thinking too much lol But seriously, any serious player should learn the CAGED method. If you're at that stage where you know the chords and the scales, but don't know how you can make them all fit together, then this is for you. If you want to know how to move around the fretboard rather than staying in that whole penatonic box, this is for you. If you want to know how to solo without constantly making mistakes, this is for you. Learn the CAGED method...okay, I'm done hahaha

Actually there is. Note that he said that the E string is open. That's the seventh.


Now that I've had a chance to play it, I can say that it is a nice voicing of the F#min9. Reminds me a little bit of one of the chords in the Beatle's Sun King.

Tune the low e to d and it sounds even bettah!

Well, there you are.

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Het thats great that you are going outside the box and finding inversions that are not standard.And though you are not inventing a chord by playing inversions like this helps create great progressions that sound different.Now when you let the open a string ring it sounds good because you are playing in the same key. I do not have a guitar in my hand but if you harmonized the A major scale in 7ths you would have Amaj7-B#m7-Dbm7-Dmaj7-E7-F#m7-Abm7#5-Amaj7 So if you were playing in the key of A or F#m any of those chords would work well or most inversions.So if you wanted to know where to go next pick a chord from the scale, and for those who know a major scale but did not know how to build chords from it now you do as A would be the 1st chord and so on.As you can see you take the 1 -4 -5 you have the blues A-D-E. And if you did not run them in 7ths it would just be A-Bm-Dbm-D-E-F#m-Abdim-A. We never talk theory and I am no wiz but it helps to know as much as you can. I hope this helps someone write something cool. Next week the modes-NAH JUST JOKING

Bravo, Ceri!!

Gridlok, (I love inane ramble!)