From: rogerj@aix.rpi.edu (Diversion (Jeff Rogers))
Subject: Re: Lesson a week (NEW)
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 17:20:31 GMT

sumrn@dssv01.crd.ge.com (Robert N. Sum) writes:

>[... some stuff omitted ...]
>|>
>|>
>|>X   O O   O
>|>___________
>|>|_|_|_|_|_|
>|>|_|_|_|_|_|
>|>|_|_|_|_o_|
>|>|_|_o_|_|_|
>|>|_o_|_|_|_|
>|>|_|_|_|_|_|
>|>|_|_|_|_|_|
>|>
>is an unusual voicing.  To play a plain D here, I barre it even though it is a
>bit of a stretch to play a C formation with fingers 2, 3, and 4.

Does anyone besides myself prefer to play barre chords over open chords? I
prefer them 'cause it's less to remember. 

BARRE CHORDS:

|_|_|_|_|_|
O-|-|-|-|-|  <- barre, O is root
|_|_|_o_|_|  Form I (or E-form)
|_o_o_|_|_|  barre chord
|_|_|_|_|_|  Major
| | | | | | 


|_|_|_|_|_|                        |_|_|_|_|_|
O-|-|-|-|-| minor                  O-|-|-|-|-|  minor 7
|_|_|_|_|_|                        |_|_|_|_|_|
|_o_o_|_|_|                        |_o_|_|_|_|
|_|_|_|_|_|                        |_|_|_|_|_|
| | | | | |                        | | | | | |

|_|_|_|_|_|                        |_|_|_|_|_|
O-|-|-|-|-| (dominant) 7th         O-|-|-|-|-|  dim 7
|_|_|_o_|_|                        |_o_|_|_|_|
|_o_|_|_|_|                        |_|_o_|_o_|
|_|_|_|_|_|                        |_|_|_|_|_|
| | | | | |                        | | | | | |

|_|_|_|_|_|                        |_|_|_|_|_|
O-|-|-|-|-| major 7th              O-|-|-|-|-|  7 sus 4
|_|_o_o_|_|                        |_|_|_|_|_|
|_o_|_|_|_|                        |_o_|_o_|_|
|_|_|_|_|_|                        |_|_|_|_|_|
| | | | | |                        | | | | | |

|_|_|_|_|_|          
O-|-|-|-|-| sus 4  
|_|_|(o)|_| The 'o' in parentheses is to         
|_o_o_o_|_| facilitate moving between a major and sus4 chord.      
|_|_|_|_|_| (see fingering diagrams below)     
| | | | | | barring (sp?) with the first finger for the root    
            and with the third (i) two frets up gives a slightly quicker 
            transition between the major and sus4, but can sound sloppy. 
			Fingering each note individually (ii) gives a cleaner sound, but the
			transition is harder and slower.
(i)
|_|_|_|_|_|                        |_|_|_|_|_|
O-|-|-|-|-| sus4 -->               O-|-|-|-|-|  major
|_|_|(2)|_|                        |_|_|_2_|_|
|_3_3_3_|_|                        |_3_4_|_|_|
|_|_|_|_|_|                        |_|_|_|_|_|
| | | | | |                        | | | | | |

(ii)
|_|_|_|_|_|                        |_|_|_|_|_|
O-|-|-|-|-| sus4 -->               O-|-|-|-|-|  major
|_|_|_|_|_|                        |_|_|_2_|_|
|_2_3_4_|_|                        |_3_4_|_|_|
|_|_|_|_|_|                        |_|_|_|_|_|
| | | | | |                        | | | | | |

On this last part, I recommend the second method (ii), because it sounds
better. There are other ways to accomplish sus4->major transitions (such as
leaving out the octave on the 4th string), but this is the one that I first
thought of :).

Comments appreciated.
Flames in the bit bucket. 
More chords will be posted if requested (or maybe if I'm bored, and no one
has requested the contrary)

Diversion

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