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DO GUITAR CHORD VOICINGS MATTER ? | David Harsh
What is something we all do with music , whether we are musicians or not ? We listen to it .
How music sounds is pretty important . And yet for some of us guitarists , we can tend to play by shape , and perhaps sometimes take for granted some of the chords we learned early on or assume that they ’ re as good as they can be .
Let ’ s get into our discussion .
This is a G Major chord .
just shown you ? Well , the lowest three notes are all crammed together . As a matter of fact , on a standard tuned guitar , it ’ s the lowest Major triad possible . And to me , it sounds pretty muddy .
YOU might prefer to play G Major like this .
I ’ ve got something that could shed quite a bit of light on your guitar voicing process .
To that end , I highly recommend watching the accompanying instructional video , while it ’ s available . This will allow you to see and hear me demonstrating exactly what ’ s going on , and we go beyond what ’ s offered here in the article .
You can find the video right now at this link : www . guitarsuccess4u . com / Voicings
It contains all the elements of a G chord , the Root – G , the Major 3 rd – B , and the 5 th , D . But let ’ s not confuse the formula of a chord with the voicing of a chord .
Ready for a random analogy ? My family likes to eat free range eggs . They ’ re healthier , for a start . This is because they ’ re from chickens that have more room to roam , rather than being confined to a small space .
Music notes also need more room , especially if they are lower in register . With this in mind , what do you observe about this G chord I ’ ve
The same problem exists , though , because those bottom three notes are still very close together . It ’ s still pretty muddy because of that low triad .
Because I ’ m limited by space here , I again encourage you to watch the video where I unpack open chord voicings for several other chords , and even show you what they look like on the piano . 60 September 2023 Subscribe for Free ...