Guitar players - what's your favorite chord?

[MoparOrNoCar]

As I’ve grown into my gentleman years, the classic C chord with the G bass note added on the E string has become my favorite.

Ah yes the gentleman's C

 

[OverCoronavirus Pressure]

Guitar is never really perfectly in tune with every chord though. I usually play a D to tune the B string flat. To me, the B string is the biggest offender even when tuned perfectly when open.

I've checked out Parker Flys with the graphite neck, and those are as close as you can get. And it's really fucking close to perfect intonation when set up properly.

The sound lacks body IMO

 

[Midnighter]

Em7

 

[Hoof Hearted]

Your mom likes my D Major.

Whereas you prefer d minor

 

[OverCoronavirus Pressure]

Whereas you prefer d minor

Sharp like a dagger, he fell flat on his keys

 

[Drain Bamage]

Guitar is never really perfectly in tune with every chord though. I usually play a D to tune the B string flat. To me, the B string is the biggest offender even when tuned perfectly when open.

Yeah that's why to get a riff like "Runnin with the Devil" to sound right you need to tune your B string up so its actually slightly "out of tune" but intonates well on those particular chords

 

[aldeniro78]

James Hetfield does not read music. I promise you. Lars certainly doesn’t.

Didn't realize you knew them personally.

 

[gnyg]

Had a guitar for many years but its only been the last year that practice has been a daily habit. Give me majors, minors and 7ths and I am all set. Started to learn blues shuffle rhythm today.

 

[billiam]

Whereas you prefer d minor

 

[rj144]

I've checked out Parker Flys with the graphite neck, and those are as close as you can get. And it's really fucking close to perfect intonation when set up properly.

The sound lacks body IMO

But, unless you get a the guitars with the crazy fretboard, the tuning will never be perfect because it's based off tempered tuning.

 

[OverCoronavirus Pressure]

But, unless you get a the guitars with the crazy fretboard, the tuning will never be perfect because it's based off tempered tuning.

LOL
I forgot those existed

 

[TankAbbott4Eva]

Guitar is never really perfectly in tune with every chord though. I usually play a D to tune the B string flat. To me, the B string is the biggest offender even when tuned perfectly when open.

My G string always goes out, never known why. Maybe the peg is the most likely to get knocked given it's at the top right of the headstock?

 

[Jack Reacheround]

Didn't realize you knew them personally.

I don’t have to know them to know they don’t know how to read music. There is nothing in any one of their backgrounds that would indicate they did. None of them were classically trained musicians. Usually, people learn to read music when they play piano, saxophone, clarinet, etc. Because to learn most of those, you have to be taught. And those who teach that stuff also invariably teach you how to read music.

And even if they did, they have forgotten by now. And played piano and saxophone for years. I knew how to read music. I had forgotten how to read it long before I picked up a guitar.

 

[Jack Reacheround]

My G string always goes out, never known why. Maybe the peg is the most likely to get knocked given it's at the top right of the headstock?

This sounds really dirty.

 

[TankAbbott4Eva]

This sounds really dirty.

I wouldn't mind knocking the peg out of her G string

 

[OverCoronavirus Pressure]

I don’t have to know them to know they don’t know how to read music. There is nothing in any one of their backgrounds that would indicate they did. None of them were classically trained musicians. Usually, people learn to read music when they play piano, saxophone, clarinet, etc. Because to learn most of those, you have to be taught. And those who teach that stuff also invariably teach you how to read music.

And even if they did, they have forgotten by now. And played piano and saxophone for years. I knew how to read music. I had forgotten how to read it long before I picked up a guitar.

Tenor and alto sax here bruh

 

[Jack Reacheround]

Tenor and alto sax here bruh

I played alto. I hated it. I hate the wood reeds. I don’t even eat popsicles because I don’t like how wood feels in my mouth, giggity.

 

[OverCoronavirus Pressure]

I played alto. I hated it. I hate the wood reeds. I don’t even eat popsicles because I don’t like how wood feels in my mouth, giggity.

Holy shit, are you me??

One of the greatest examples of precision hearing I've ever seen was in marching band. The band leader heard me from 50 yards, among a 12 person saxophone section, surrounded by the rest of the band.

She stopped the run through because I had broken all my reeds and all I had left was the practice plastic reed.

She halted the band and screamed, "Overpressure, are you playing with a plastic reed?!"

 

[Jack Reacheround]

Holy shit, are you me??

One of the greatest examples of precision hearing I've ever seen was in marching band. The band leader heard me from 50 yards, among a 12 person saxophone section, surrounded by the rest of the band.

She stopped the run through because I had broken all my reeds and all I had left was the practice plastic reed.

She halted the band and screamed, "Overpressure, are you playing with a plastic reed?!"

I didn’t even know plastic was an option. I barely played sax. Mostly piano. I tried the sax, didn’t like it, then just quit music for a while until I was about 13 or so when I decided I wanted to play guitar.

I saw a local punk show at the high school I would be attending in the next couple years. I was hooked. I knew that was what I wanted to do. Fortunately my dad had a few guitars laying around and Mel Bay’s beginning guitar book.

 

[aldeniro78]

I don’t have to know them to know they don’t know how to read music. There is nothing in any one of their backgrounds that would indicate they did. None of them were classically trained musicians. Usually, people learn to read music when they play piano, saxophone, clarinet, etc. Because to learn most of those, you have to be taught. And those who teach that stuff also invariably teach you how to read music.

And even if they did, they have forgotten by now. And played piano and saxophone for years. I knew how to read music. I had forgotten how to read it long before I picked up a guitar.

I was just making the comment that James used to play piano. You have idea, however, what he remembers or knows when it comes to reading music.