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This Issue: Contrasting Open Chords

Open chords are a real staple of acoustic guitar and have been put to great use on the electric by players such as Alex Lifeson, Pete Townshend and Jeff Buckley, among others. In this context, the word ‘contrasting’ refers to the combination of high fretted notes and open strings. Though there are hundreds of possibilities, here are just some to give you food for thought. The wide intervallic skips between the open and fretted strings are often a feature of chord playing when using open/altered tunings, but as these examples demonstrate, there is potential to explore before you reach for the tuners… Example 1 By virtue of the presence of the G# and B, we have here an A major 9. The low E could also be used in this…

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Guitarist (Digital) - 1 Issue, January 2019

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