I was playing today and stumbled upon a chord I don't remember playing before, and wasn't sure what to call it. I was going to make a thread here asking, but thought I'd check online first. I found this really cool free chord finder page:
https://www.scales-chords.com/chord-namer/
I just thought I'd mention it, for anyone like me who hasn't seen it before and doesn't care to dive too deeply into theory. You just check off the notes and it'll name the chord. It has a couple of drop down boxes to control some other parameters.
I also noticed if you click the link that says "name this guitar chord" it'll also show you an uke chord fingering.
There's another one that is a bit different on the same page:
https://www.scales-chords.com/chordid.php
I haven't explored the site yet really, but I'm thinking there are probably a lot of other useful pages on it too.
I found out my chord was a D6/11sus but could also be named as a Bm7#5.
I'm going with the first one because it makes it sound like the most complicated chord I've ever played.
I most often play a D chord as: 2225
This D6/11sus version I'm playing is 2232
The second chord there sounds really good after the D to me.
I often stumble upon chords on the uke that I would've never arrived at on a guitar.
That brings me to my next point...
As someone who has played more guitar than uke over the years, I am really starting to appreciate the uke more than the guitar in terms of stumbling upon chords and variations just by experimenting (lift a finger here, add one there, etc.) and also being able to actually play them. I've had ukes off and on for many years too, but for whatever reason it's just now clicking with me more these past months. It may be because I've played a lot more uke than guitar and don't even own a guitar as of right now. It used to be that going from guitar to uke sounded a bit odd and confusing as far as how chords sound and work together, but now it's the other way around.
I know there are others who feel similarly. I remember someone else here, or maybe in an article I read, commenting on playing chords they would've never dreamed of playing on guitar.
Don't get me wrong, I do still like guitar, especially acoustic....but having played both gives me an added appreciation for the uke with what I'm talking about here.
https://www.scales-chords.com/chord-namer/
I just thought I'd mention it, for anyone like me who hasn't seen it before and doesn't care to dive too deeply into theory. You just check off the notes and it'll name the chord. It has a couple of drop down boxes to control some other parameters.
I also noticed if you click the link that says "name this guitar chord" it'll also show you an uke chord fingering.
There's another one that is a bit different on the same page:
https://www.scales-chords.com/chordid.php
I haven't explored the site yet really, but I'm thinking there are probably a lot of other useful pages on it too.
I found out my chord was a D6/11sus but could also be named as a Bm7#5.
I'm going with the first one because it makes it sound like the most complicated chord I've ever played.
I most often play a D chord as: 2225
This D6/11sus version I'm playing is 2232
The second chord there sounds really good after the D to me.
I often stumble upon chords on the uke that I would've never arrived at on a guitar.
That brings me to my next point...
As someone who has played more guitar than uke over the years, I am really starting to appreciate the uke more than the guitar in terms of stumbling upon chords and variations just by experimenting (lift a finger here, add one there, etc.) and also being able to actually play them. I've had ukes off and on for many years too, but for whatever reason it's just now clicking with me more these past months. It may be because I've played a lot more uke than guitar and don't even own a guitar as of right now. It used to be that going from guitar to uke sounded a bit odd and confusing as far as how chords sound and work together, but now it's the other way around.
I know there are others who feel similarly. I remember someone else here, or maybe in an article I read, commenting on playing chords they would've never dreamed of playing on guitar.
Don't get me wrong, I do still like guitar, especially acoustic....but having played both gives me an added appreciation for the uke with what I'm talking about here.
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