Favourite chord.

I too very often transpose to G but this is because this key usually suits my voice. Occasionally though I find that a song does not sound right unless played with the original chords - I then sing the praises of the person who invented the capo .

Roger

Nela  i just enjoying this thread, why go and complicate things for us thickies  lol:)

and Roger with a singing voice like mine (ranging from yer dangley bits tight in a vice to a rasping dawg bark lol) i dont think i mind what key am in  (sniggers)

Dont Stop Kid Keep Rockin'  !!

Hey Hopeful, Roger, NELA and Micky.

Yeah it's how the chords are combined that makes it memorable or enjoyable to play.

One thing my capo can't do for me is help me sing "Somebody to love" by Queen. The original open chords are necessary for the runs and sounding right, but it's just a half or whole semitone too high (and it starts on my favourite singing chord G!). Tuning down doesn't sound right and my capo (Kaiser) won't fit at the 10th, let alone 11th fret because of the heel coming down the neck. Oh well, if I have a remote control tightening a vice on my dangly bits at th right moments, maybe I won't need to worry about capos and keys!

Hey Micky, I did Blaydon Races last night. The whole place was singing along. And talking of chords, where there's nothing new or unusual in this song, their combination on the chorus makes for interesting playing - great fun and good exercise!!!

And beware! It's not your vice but other peoples that can really cause you damage!

Micky started it!

You guys are totally out of touch.  Using a vice on your dangly bits hasn't been in vogue since the Inquisition.  Many people did not know that the Inquisition was started to get people to do their chants more in tune with others, but that's how it got started.  A vice, some dangly bits, and a chant that had to be done in Dm. 

Nowadays, what you need is hydraulic underwear.  This has been the way it's been done since the glory days of Motown.  If you look carefully at the backup singers of any good Motown band, especially the Four Tops and the Temptations, you'll see that they rotate one forearm around the other during certain parts.  Then they'll reverse directions.  This is how they used to control the hydraulic flow into the lead singer's hydraulic underwear.  Left over right for tighten, and right over left for loosen.  Later, stadium rockers got an underarm pump.  There's a switch in the heels of their boots (explaining why the heels are so large and clunky).  When they lean back on the heels and pump the arm holding the microphone, it engages the hydraulics and allows them to hit those high falsetto notes more easily.  In that many stadium rock songs were done entirely in falsetto voices explains a great deal about the pained expressions and quantities of sweat peculiar to that style of music.  Hey, I'd smash a guitar too, given the situation. 

A little known fact is that Michael Jackson had figured out a way to use hydraulic underwear by walking backwards.  This was the development of the moonwalk.  Unfortunately there was a minor problem with the technology, further explaining his frequent "adjustments" while he dances.  Apparantly he was a bit too fond of the technology, which further explains the glove. 

As far as music goes, I seem to prefer songs in D that have no more than four chords, of which none are barred.  The occaisonal Bm is OK.  Um, given the unusual nature of the earlier paragraphs, that Bm refers to B minor and not the other meaning for those letters used in that particular order.

- Zurf

Look out the boys are being silly and now I've got some mental images that I'm not sure I want either.  :

RavenLady

Probably A7

Dm

Yeah, ya gotta love a good B Minor,.. Zurf.... HE. HE. HE. 
  I like to put my capo on upside down at the second fret and leave the 6th string open. then play in a D pos. use the open E string like a drone, sounds oh so sweet!!  Songs like Rueben's train or Arkansas traveler, Blue Diamond Mine.

Zurf - you funny! Very, very funny.

I got tears in my eyes and my cheeks hurt funny!

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What's the meaning of the non-musical Bm? Does it have to do with leather and whips?

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The E chord is great. (followed by a B7)

nela

I like open A its a real meaty chord and movable also the D/f# its a great transitional chord to G and my favorite (besides the B) is a open E for the fullness of sound and also good for lead solos because you can start on the lowest string and play a riff to the end of your frets and if you use a slide even farther