thejumpingflea
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I've just started doing a weekly video series on my favorite chords and how I like to use them. This week's episode is on Fadd9, one of the easiest chords on the ukulele!
Jim, considering how simple those chords are I'm surprised they haven't cropped up in anything I've come across so far.
That's a good one too ubulele. I'm using a barred form of that one in my latest song and you're right, it really is a chameleon depending on what you call the root (or what the bass instrument is playing). My progression is
Em Cmaj7 G and (2422). I mostly settled on A as the bass note so a-e-f#-b , A6/9, but I may have done some Es as well with the double suspended E chord resolving back to Em. I like it!
I don't think I struck upon that sequence, but I agree that would work well too.Have you tried playing half of the bar with 2422, followed by 2322 for the second half of the bar?
Are the chords i've got dumbed down?
Almost all "tabs" and lead sheets are dumbed down to make them more "accessible" to the average player. A lot of color and chord changes are stripped out. And many lead sheets are flat out wrong about some chords (if you compare them to the original renditions).
I also find that, if you stick with just the original chords, things can end up sounding quite flat and dull, reduced to the sound of just the ukulele and your voice. So I often have to add color, transitional chords, even alternative harmonizations, just to make things more interesting. Particularly with modern songs, what's interesting about them isn't necessarily the lyrics, the melodies or the harmonies, but the rhythmic and ambient effects—hard to capture the same feel with just an acoustic uke.