Talk:Open chord

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Removal[edit]

Before removing content please see WP:CITE. Hyacinth (talk) 01:43, 14 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Advanced open chords[edit]

This section is definitely worthwhile, but 'fretting the E-barre shape on the fifth fret without the barre allows the open E, A and E to ring alongside the higher position E, A and C#' is really not clear. I've just about worked out what was meant (007650 in tab, standard tuning), but unsure how best to rephrase it. --Georgefst (talk) 12:30, 19 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Open chord as opposite of block chord[edit]

This article only talks about open chords on stringed instruments, but there's another meaning: the opposite of a block chord, where the notes of a chord are played in sequence rather than simultaneously. This should either be covered here, or a new article created and disambiguated. --Bigpeteb (talk) 15:32, 16 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Bigpeteb, I've never heard that usage. Wouldn't that be called an arpeggio, an arpeggiated pattern, or, if repeated, an ostinato, or, if on guitar, a "finger picking" style? It looks like you need to be the editor to add it, if you know where it came from. 199.189.86.27 (talk) 21:31, 26 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Capo[edit]

"With a capo on the first fret, an open A minor chord would sound like a B♭ minor chord."

That's a little misleading. Would someone who plays guitar improve the wording? It's not an A minor chord if it sounds like a B♭ minor chord. It's a B♭ minor chord. If you put your fingers in the exact places that you normally put them to play the non-open strings of an open A minor, but you had a capo below the first fret, you'd get a combination of notes that would be neither A minor nor B♭ minor. It might be better to explain that it's the same fingering relative to the fret just above (is "above" the right term?) the capo as an A minor chord would be relative to the nut (is nut the correct term?) without a capo, or that it's the same fingering as an A minor chord moved up one fret, but calling it an A minor chord just isn't right. 199.189.86.27 (talk) 21:22, 26 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I've had a go at re-explaining this, and also the explanation of open strings ringing freely. This might benefit from another visit from someone else—I'm wondering if I'm just explaining the blindingly obvious.Martin Turner (talk) 23:00, 19 January 2019 (UTC)23:00, 19 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I've also added in a section on Advanced Open Chords, with a reference to The Guitar Cookbook. Again, this could do with someone else improving the text a bit, as it sounds awkward right now.Martin Turner (talk) 23:16, 19 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]