Friday Five

[ericcoleman]

I'll have my Friday Five up in the morning ... but ... if there is anything you would like to know my top five on, let me know.

Oh, and as you may have noticed, I do tend to be a little confrontational about my choices, expect this to continue. The next 4 or 5 will be music, and I do take that very seriously.

Comments

[born-to-me.livejournal.com]

You tickle me, because I've not met many people other than myself that can be that confrontational about music & musical choices.

I'd like to know your top five bands you'd drive more than four hours to see in concert.

[ericcoleman]

I will do that list ... it may be a month or so though.

[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

The next 4 or 5 will be music, and I do take that very seriously.

Should bloody hope so too, m'dear....

And more power to the EC elbow.

[ericcoleman]

It's the EC wrist that needs the help now ... I hurt myself getting a little carried away playing drums. I'm hoping that it's not permanent.

[wyld-dandelyon.livejournal.com]

Top five cool guitar chords, with fingerings (for any chord, even simple ones like "G" or "Am7" there's more than one, and they DON'T sound the same.)

[ericcoleman]

Then I would give away ALL my songwriting tricks, since I really only use 5 chords total generally.

[wyld-dandelyon.livejournal.com]

Since I do use more than 5 chords (though not necessarily all in one song), and we write VERY different songs, I must conclude that your conclusion is incorrect.

So, what ARE your 5 top songwriting tricks?

[ericcoleman]

I really don't have any. I use G, C, D and Em for most of my songs. If not then it's Em, A, D, with no 4th chord generally. The only real trick is that I capo to get different keys. I do voice the C oddly occasionally, and that voicing is

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|_|2|_|_|3|_|
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Which is a Cadd9 something since the Cadd9 is actually

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|_|2|_|_|3|4|
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Everyone uses pretty much the same chords, and we all sound different. It's how you play them more than what the chords are.

[ericcoleman]

So, obviously, the 5 chords that I generally use are G, C, D, Em, A

[barondave.livejournal.com]

"Confrontational"? I dunno, everyone has their own musical taste. I don't necessarily agree with yours, but I hardly think merely posting a list is a challenge. Having said that, and with a few minutes to spare, here are a few I might, in the right mood, like to know:

Top Five Guilty Pleasures

Top Five A Cappella Songs

Top Five Songs That Have Got You Laid (I have an Ulterior Motive for this one...)

Top Five Rock or Folk Instrumentals

Top Five Earworms

[ericcoleman]

Go read the replies ...

[ericcoleman]

I'll definitely do the first one.

I don't like A Cappella music much, and I don't tend to like instrumentals much.

Two artists have gotten me laid, but that was decades ago. I may mention both of them in a guilty pleasures list.

Earworms ... depends on how mean I'm feeling.

[wyld-dandelyon.livejournal.com]

Or a CM7-something. The CM7 has just the 1 and the 2.

Your Cadd9 reminds me of what Art and I call the Indigo Girls' G, which I have been told is actually not a "G-something", just an alternate G fingering:
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*_|_|_|_*_*
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Sometimes I pick this one over the regular G for the sound, but sometimes I pick it for ease of quick fingering from the D--keeping one finger down can help tired fingers go exactly where they need to.

There's other chords with more than one fingering, like Am7. (I love minor 7ths. They almost taste like dark chocolate.):
___________ ___________ ___________
|_|_|_|_*_| |_|_|_|_*_| |_|_|_|_*_|
|_|_*_*_|_| |_|_*_|_|_| |_|_*_|_|_|
|_|_|_|_|_* |_|_|_|_|_| |_|_|_|_|_*
|_|_|_|_|_| |_|_|_|_|_| |_|_|_|_|_|
|_|_|_|_|_| |_|_|_|_|_| |_|_|_|_|_|

You can similarly get two different A7s, one of which sounds a lot darker than the other. Two E7s too... And these aren't even bar chords!

[wyld-dandelyon.livejournal.com]

Pesky LJ stripped out my extra spaces, and then used a different font for the posting than it did for my typing, so it doesn't even line up right. Grumble.

[ericcoleman]

It's not a G ... it is the same fingering as a G, only with the middle and index finger moved up one. I have a book of chords here, it is a Cadd9 minus the high note ...

[ericcoleman]

Ahhh ... now that I see the whole thing ... yeah, that is the way I play a G, the 3 fret B string gives a nice resonance to it.

[wyld-dandelyon.livejournal.com]

I understood that the chord you drew was some sort of "C-thing" and not a G at all.

The first chord I drew was a G, however. The other 3, if you can see them in the muddle LJ made of my diagrams, were Am7.