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I love me a nice Viognier

Do you have a cost plus world market near you? What's your target price point?

They have a nice house brand pinot noir that is like $7-$8 a bottle. It's called Foodies.

If you can afford to spend a bit more, for $9-11 a bottle you can get some nice whites (Starborough sauv blanc, Seaglass sauv blanc).

I prefer lighter wines that aren't too syrupy sweet. Not sure if that is palatable to you.

Eb tuning shall set you free.  I'd rather play 12s in Eb than 10s in e. For me the string tension is a lot more important than gauge. Although I guess they are closely related.

They made notes back then?

Well now that's a better clarification than you can shake a stick at.

Your eb7 above is correct except for the open D string. Notes in an Eb7 are:
Eb, G, Bb, Db.

The open 4th string is a D which is not a part of the Eb7 chord. If you wanted to play a chord with the b7 in the bass (which is a cool but unusual voicing) using the open d string you would need to move your chord form up 1/2 step and play E7 with a D in the bass. The notes in E7 are

E G# B D. So your chord shape would work and would put the dominant 7th chord tone in the bass. Would sound super cool with a band behind you but perhaps a bit tense in a solo acoustic type situation.

Re: the F#m chord, that's one of my favorite chord shapes. You can play a big honkin' barre chord across all strings and just mute the A string.. you wind up with

2
2
2
2
x
2

Lots of people might know this chord shape as
2
2
2
2
4
2

However I like to omit that A string note for two reasons:
1. It's the 5th degree of the chord, which is generally unnecessary unless you're playing an altered chord like your Gb7b5 above. (In fact I find 5ths unnecessary and avoid them whenever I play barre chords.)
2. Even if you are compelled to put 5ths in all of your chords, the 4th fret A string is doubled by the 2nd fret B string. both of those are C#s. So why play two?

Might be justifying my laziness but I like to leave that bad boy out altogether.

This particular barre chord has lots of possibilities. You can play the barre on strings 1,2,3,4 with your ring finger and the bass note with your index finger or middle finger. Or (my favorite) play the barre with your index finger and hit the low E string 2nd fret with your thumb. That leaves your three other fingers to take a break, hit some wrong notes or point at the cute girl ordering drinks.

Fun extensions of that chord are
4 (F#m7 add 9)
2
2
2
x
2

and:
5
2
2
2
x
2
(this one really isn't an extension but for some reason putting the b3 up at the top of the chord sounds kind of pensive.)

You might also recognize that this barre chord also forms the low frets of the minor pentatonic scale:
2 5
2 5
2 4
2 4
2 4
2 5.

See all those 2s?

So you can even play that barre chord with your thumb and index finger and also do blues scale type fills with your other three fingers just by following the minor pentatonic pattern.

Fun stuff!

Just a quick couple points of clarification...I might not be following you but I think there are a couple of mistakes here unless I'm reading your notation incorrectly. For purposes of simplification I've left off your finger number:

- 3rd fret string 4, 2nd fret string 3 and 1st fret string 2 is FAC - an F major triad. You need an e (open 1st string) to make it Fmaj7.
- 2nd fret string 3, 2nd fret string 2 and 2nd fret string 1 is D major 7, not D7. Fun fact: It's also F#m.
- A natural scale (I assume you mean major scale?) doesn't sound all notes of an octave in sequence. All notes of an octave in sequence would be a chromatic scale.
- Arpeggios can occur on one octave. For example you can play FACEb ACEbF FEbCA EbCAF for a 1 octave F dominant 7 ascending and then descending arpeggio.

On another note, your Dm is interesting as it's a rootless voicing, which works great in some settings but is not very common. I use a lot of rootless voicings in one of my groups. What song(s) do you use that in? Do you throw a 5th fret A string in there to add a root to it or do you use it as your main Dm chord when you play?

-BGD

Don't bother. It's gross. I have it as a last resort.

Banks get criticized for charging more than 36% on a loan but these guys mark up a coffee by 800% and it's all good. I don't get it.

Sounds great man!

Sounds really good man. Very Dylan.

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Your muso is our musician. lol