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Answer Title Answer to Problem #5

 

 

Category Picking out Oddball chords and chord voicings

 

 

 

 

 

Jeff's Guitar's tuning Standard  E, A, D, G, B, E

 

 

Guitar Jeff used Acoustic (Ovation)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Key of D to Dm

 

 

Effects Jeff was using if any Reverb, no other effects

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Solution notes

 

This was tricky for most and I understand that totally.  When you see the tab you'll see shapes you've seen before on the fret board.  In some case notes to these simple chord shapes were omitted and open strings were put in, or in other cases notes were added to them either from open strings or other octaves of notes already in the chord. 

 

The best thing to do when figuring out chords like this is exactly what I suggested on the problem mp3.  Don't worry about the pattern, just find the notes that make up these chords.  See video lesson for help and the tabs below to cross reference what you got with your tab.

 

 

 

 

Video Lesson

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Actual" TABS for the problem

Main Chords

        D       D7         Gm       A             Dm   Gm7     Dmaj7 sus2 b13          Dm

E_ 10___ 8_____6____5______5___6______6__________5____________
B__7____7_____8____5______6___6______5__________6____________
G__7____7_____7____6______7___0______6__________7____________
D__0____x_____0____7______0__________0__________0____________
A_______0____________________________________________________
E____________________________________________________________

Actual piece with finger picked pattern

         D                                        D7                                      Gm   

E__10__________10______8____________8_____6___________6______
B______7____7_____7________7_____7___________8_____8____8____
G________7____________________7_________________7____________
D__0______________________________________0__________________
A______________________0_____________________________________
E____________________________________________________________

     A

E_5___________5_________________________________
B____5_____5____________________________________
G_______6_______________________________________
D_7_________________into minor key section__________
A_______________________________________________
E_______________________________________________

    Dm                                  Gm7                                    Dmaj7 sus2 b13                                   Dm

E_5___________5_____6___________6_______6___________6_______5_________5_____5__
B____6_____6____6______6_____6____6________5_____5____5_______6_____6____6__6__
G_______7___________0_____0___________________6__________________7__________7__
D_0_____________________________________0___________________0_______________
0__
A______________________________________________________________________________
E______________________________________________________________________________