CHORDS

ive never really counted cause i dont do barrs or tabs so i just play basics.g,c,f,a,d,a7,g7,c7,d7,am,em,Bb,dmin,eb,i can play all the songs i like with these chords which are all on the first three frets,but if a song requires different chords i would learn them then...

Nadine2, did you disappear? I missed you and glad to C U back, I mailed you 20 weeks ago, but there was a problem Daemon Failure.
What you write is SO true. There are a few thousand chords, BUT I think that a lot of them are more common playing piano. Never expected to get an answer on this topic, because you have to try to play in front of your PC, or looking for chords, = BRAIN GYMNASTICS, whatever you claim, YOU NEED TO THINK, just take chords you knew but lost.
Daddycool: I didn't count them either, and I swear, it took me hours. But the only way out this CHORD WOOD, "one finger on another place gives a complete different sound. E versus Em, same root, you just remove 1 finger from E : there you go. That's what I like about Zurf how he describes "the essence", but I should add the chords you see on top of my topic, even than there is a difficulty: Cm, Gm, no problem in barré. Since almost every CHORDIAN can play "Hotel California" I add the fact that this is in fact more complicated, because of F# and Bm.
To come back on your answer Nadine, I can play probably a lot more chords without knowing it, but I gave it up to count them. Most used chords are still (I try to rank them in: easy and a lot used chords first. E   C   D   G   A   F(is more difficult) followed by Em  Am  A7  B7  C7  D7.)
Practise more the ones not written here.
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GITAARDOCPHIL SAIS: BIGGEST PROBLEM IS MY SPINAL CHORD, it is a CURSE, BUT I LIVE.

I can play major, minor, minor seventh, dominant seventh and power chords

I tend you use distortion and hit the strings hard so 13th chords, diminished chords and such like are pretty indistinguishable

my main aim is to master the D, C and G shape barre chords so i don't have to move so far up and down the neck when playing in positon

if I was to start playing jazz standards or classical I would have to sharpen up my act but that ain't gonna happen soon

Well Boot, that's almost exactly what I expected.
I just put chords I can play. But almost all types of chords I wrote down, I can play. Most of them "flawless", others, like even the F-chord, are more difficult. More, I play maybe twice the number of chords I mentionned, because I use, more in acoustic, chords I didn't know what it was.
Like Aadd6, played in the Fleetwood Mac song: "man of the world", it is = to A, but you take alsop the thin E-string. And probably, I will really count the chords I play without problems.
QUESTION: HOW DO YOU PLAY A SPECIAL CHORD because some chords, even transposed are almost not to play ( I don't have long fingers: ANOTHER REASON WHY HENDRIX could play difficult chords, because he had real long fingers.) Do you know PAGANINI, a man who played and composed on a violin: even today there are pieces written by Paganini, using finger settings in such a way, that can not be played. Here it was due to a rare disease, you can see it probably on the web, and the name of the disease was: SYNDROME OF MARFAN, a lack of a protein. It is a genetic disorder of the connective tissue characterized by disproportionately long limbs, long thin fingers, a relatively tall stature, and a predisposition to cardiovascular abnormalities, specifically those affecting the heart valves and aorta. Just because of the XXXL size fingers and being a musician, I heard or read somewhere that they could almost take an "octave".
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GITAARDOCPHIL SAIS: IT IS NOT EASY TO HAVE LONG FINGERS USED IN A STORE

KramL, where are you from?
Did you know that in the prechordian time, I played pretty well at that time, but today I can really tell you, without shame, that I play a lot of chords, that I switch on time, and the switching from A to D to C, in a 1 movement was easy. The problem was that I was afraid to play in front of 2-3 men.
I was shy and always thinking that the songs I played "sucked". Now I don't care anymore to play in front of people.
WHY: the combination of me and chordie. I like to write topics asking  others what they think about something. You will find almost a chordian who will give you an answer.As example: I am lost, in my search to a certain chord: you will get a decent answer.
I am since years surfing on the web, and I never encountered a forum like this.
We, better players advise youngsters, and youngsters are asking and giving their advise. I never saw a site like this. I have TIME, TIME... due to a car crash, and being here was the best thing that happened to me. More motivation, more devotion, more practising, WITHOUT A FEELING, TO BE ALONE. Nobody attacks nobody, if government leaders" should be on this site, well they would see what peace is.
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