I'm new to guitars so bare with me. I was wondering what chord would d-g-b-e be on the 7th fret on a piano? Like for example this video below:
@ 1:45
What guitar chord would this be on a piano?
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someone called simon someone called simon https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=185637
- KVRian
- 543 posts since 24 Jul, 2008 from a small city in a small country in the antipodes
He's not playing the notes he said he is! Weird.
He doesn't appear to be playing the bass note, which I can hear is D. the notes above it that he's playing are A, D, F#, B, so it's a D6 chord. The notes he has listed are a G6 chord. The added E makes it a 6th.
He doesn't appear to be playing the bass note, which I can hear is D. the notes above it that he's playing are A, D, F#, B, so it's a D6 chord. The notes he has listed are a G6 chord. The added E makes it a 6th.
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- KVRian
- 1002 posts since 1 Dec, 2004
Yeah, seems that guitar is playing A D F# B, which combined to the bass on E and some other instrument in there playing G, makes it a voicing for Em11 if I'm not mistaken.
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- KVRAF
- 26033 posts since 20 Oct, 2007 from gonesville
Well, that isn't really wrong as a technicality but I would not necessarily call that "a D6 chord".someone called simon wrote:the notes [...] are A, D, F#, B, so it's a D6 chord.
Where the bass is definitely D is when that name may be preferred. On the guitar, that thing right there as is tends to be Bm7 (like a partial of your full guitar B F# A D F# B, tends to be the thinking).
I don't really believe in 'sixth chords' much of the time. There is a certain sound that is absolutely 'add 6' and '6/9 chord' in pop/jazz of an older time; so this is from context. But the occam's razor explanation more tends to minor 7. Maybe even more so the so-called 'minor 6th chord', which is usually best explained as a major 7th chord, perhaps in an inversion.
E A D F# B is more an E11th (w. the G if you feel it necessary, 4th finger or the bass player).
When I was a chordal player I did as much with idiomatic fingerings, esp. barre-ing as I could.
So from here, B G A D F# with 2nd & 3rd fingers available to grace or trill B and G from the barred A and F#. Second finger on C for a little bit of a pungent 9/#4 (and yep, w. C and G rooting it 'add 6')...
Also I prefer 'add 6' because in classical lingo people say '6th chord' meaning first inversion triad.