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Exploring Chord shapes.

I have enjoyed searching around the site and reading posts about Chord Shapes. Lots of good, clear advice and diagrams. But I have not been able to find the chord shape for Bm with 4 string open G tuning.

I have tuned GDgb and I am trying to learn a fairly simple song where the chords go E, Bm, A, E.

Can anyone help me out? I have no musical theory or background to rely on. Help?

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Permalink Reply by turtlehead on July 19, 2015 at 6:08am

G------4

D------4

G------4

B------3

I like to use this site to figure out chords.

http://www.chorderator.com/

You can enter the chord you're looking for and under "more options" you can customize the tuning to whatever you want. It will give you inversions all the way up the neck. It also works in reverse - put in the fingering and it will tell you what chord you're playing.

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Permalink Reply by White Raven on July 19, 2015 at 6:49am

Turtlehead, this is awesome! now I can figure out a variety of songs as long I can find the chords.

I am thinking of taking Pat Curly's 4 string course as a next step.

I appreciate your help.

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Permalink Reply by turtlehead on July 19, 2015 at 7:05am

Glad to help Raven!

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Permalink Reply by Richey Kay on July 19, 2015 at 6:40pm

If you have a smartphone or tablet there is a great free app called 'Smart Chord' which I use all the time. You can set up different instruments on it, including 4 string CBG in whatever tuning you wish. So now rather then spending 10 minutes working out how to play Bbdim7add9 or whatever, I just look it up on there.

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Permalink Reply by White Raven on July 20, 2015 at 2:59am

Thats amazing. I will have to check it out.

Thanks Richey.

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Permalink Reply by Lazylefteye on July 20, 2015 at 5:16am

I wish that app was available for ipad.

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Permalink Reply by Ron "Oily" Sprague on July 26, 2015 at 12:50am

Here's several I use on the iPad:

ChordBank

UkeBank

And especially, ChordGenie Pro (it was worth spending the money for)

You can set up different number of strings and different tunings, and just look 'em up like Richey does.

Also, you can look here for hundreds of chords, in all keys, for GDGB tuning:

http://gtdb.org/gdgb/chords

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Permalink Reply by Lazylefteye on July 26, 2015 at 3:30am

Just my luck, I went to the app store to get ChordGenie Pro and it's no longer available. I'll check out the others though. Thanks.
I enquired with the developers as to whether they had any plans to port Smart Chord to IOS and they said they aren't going to.