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Permalink Reply by Brian Hunt on July 8, 2011 at 7:37pm

Bminor can be played by fretting the 1 and 3 strings at the fourth fret and leaving the 2 string open, or you can fret the 1 and the 3 strings at the seventh fret and the 2 string at the ninth fret, or you can fret the 1 and the 3 strings at the eleventh fret and the 2 string on the ninth fret. These are incomplete chords but it gives you a basic Bminor.

 

E7 can be played by fretting the 1 and the 3 strings at the first fret and leaving the 2 string open or you can fret the 2 string at the second fret. String 2 at the sixth fret and strings 1 and 2 at the seventh fret. These are also incomplete chords.

 

hope this helps.

 

Brian Hunt

 

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Permalink Reply by Keni Lee Burgess on July 9, 2011 at 12:09am

Hello,

I don't know how much time you have to make this arrangement, but I would like to make a suggestion.

If you are using strings ADG to tune GDG, you can retune to ADf# (Open D).

This tuning offers a complete system of movable chords that works very similar to a 6 string guitar.

I believe you will be able to create a much nicer arrangement.

Please check out this video for an example:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGYE3h6tD2g

I teach this approach on my instructional video CD 6 (How to Play 3 string CBG Part 2 / Devil Tuning).

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Enjoy your practice, Keni Lee  

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Permalink Reply by David Tutterrow GutBucketGuitars on July 10, 2011 at 12:32pm

Wow! Good stuff guys. Thanks so much for the help and tips. I greatly appreciate it!

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Permalink Reply by BenBob on July 11, 2011 at 5:07pm

Bm: 4-4-7 (low to high, complete chord)

 

Here are some ideas for approximating an E7, do what sounds best. All are low to high:

1-2-4 (just E) then lift a finger for 1-0-4. That goes nicely into 2-2-2 if that's next.

4-2-1 then 4-0-1 (same idea)

9-6-7

9-9-7

 

Knowing the song/chords would help because I'd choose what to play based on what the melody is doing and how the progression is changing.

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Permalink Reply by Seaman Jay on July 11, 2011 at 9:57pm

Next time - use the "chorderator" ;-) 

http://www.chorderator.com/cgi-bin/generate.py?optionsDisp=yes&...

 

As for 7ths on a 3-string in chorderator - I'd double the middle string G-D-G-(D), and try to play the chords skipping 1st or 3rd degree ("select 3 of 4 notes").

(if KLB says something different - take his advice ;-) )

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