House style chord on guitar
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- KVRist
- 178 posts since 25 Jul, 2012
To play this House style chord on piano, I would play eg: a C major chord with my right hand and a octave lower with my left hand play a C note, what I want to know is how do you play this on a guitar?
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- KVRist
- Topic Starter
- 178 posts since 25 Jul, 2012
When playing a chord on my guitar, would I need to use my thumb for the bass note, like in this video:
This cool too:
This cool too:
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- KVRAF
- 26033 posts since 20 Oct, 2007 from gonesville
No, there is no necessity per se to use your thumb in those chords, that's his preference or something comfortable. I find it not so comfortable. For the m7s he does I would play a barre chord. Also he is leaving out a string by doing that so that's perhaps part of the preference or even style. But per se, no.
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- KVRian
- 1158 posts since 6 Jan, 2015 from London, England
Barre chords are typically played by classical or Spanish guitarists. And anyone else who learned to play that way. The thumb-on-bass string style is often known as folk style, but a great many self-taught guitarists have learned it or reinvented it.
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- KVRist
- Topic Starter
- 178 posts since 25 Jul, 2012
Thanks for your advice jancivil and garryknight, very much appreciated.
I was going to buy JamOrigin to play synth/piano sounds with my guitar, but now I've decided to use my old Yamaha Clavinova with midi to control my M1 software for playing House Chords, and use my Guitar for what’s its intended for.
I was going to buy JamOrigin to play synth/piano sounds with my guitar, but now I've decided to use my old Yamaha Clavinova with midi to control my M1 software for playing House Chords, and use my Guitar for what’s its intended for.
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- KVRAF
- 2616 posts since 17 Apr, 2004
Or, like me, are just lazy guitaristsgarryknight wrote:The thumb-on-bass string style is often known as folk style, but a great many self-taught guitarists have learned it or reinvented it.
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- KVRAF
- 26033 posts since 20 Oct, 2007 from gonesville
Oh, just in service of really clear terms, in the first video he is playing an Am7 [and a Bm7]. A [and B] with the thumb at the bottom of the chords, omitting the fifth string, and a half-barre on strings 4-2. A, G C E. It's the more expedient way of voicing it that way, as opposed to a 'full barre' where you have to more purposely deal with the fifth string. Typically the full barre fingering would give you the fifth of the chord on that string, A E C G E.
I never liked it, painful, and I've got to get back into position out of it.
I never liked it, painful, and I've got to get back into position out of it.
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- KVRian
- 1158 posts since 6 Jan, 2015 from London, England
That's why we reinvented itsjm wrote:Or, like me, are just lazy guitaristsgarryknight wrote:The thumb-on-bass string style is often known as folk style, but a great many self-taught guitarists have learned it or reinvented it.
