I've pretty much gotten down most basic chords. I wanna start getting sus chords and shit like that. can anyone reccomend some PRETTY sounding chords to me plz?

F#m, G diminished, A, Bm

I love this chord progression. (I pick it using only the first four strings, E,A,D,G)

Fully-voiced mi9 chords sound very nice on the guitar. 022032 is Emi9; you can move that around by turning it into 020002.

If you think you've gotten down basic chords, try inverting them or playing them with a different bass note (slash chords). You can produce a lot of sounds by doing that.

Thanks guys. I like the sound of mi9 and Gxy that chord progression is actually really fun to play haha

On of my fav chords is 032022, it's like G but your index and middle finger jump up a string.

Tis lovely when played around D, Em, Asus, and er.... 000230

I really like this chord 032022 i messed around with and came up with some pretty cool sounds, 320032, 022032, playing around G and D.

Also, 042400 and 024400 and 021400 are very pretty imo not really sure what chords they are.

X02410 - A minor add9

X34032 - C add9 #11, or just kind of a C lydian chord.

133400 - F maj7 #11

X24252 - B 7sus4

799800 - B sus4

The second one might be difficult to finger depending on your finger dexterity but these are some of my favorites.

000230 is a very strangely inverted Dsus2 or a very strangely inverted Asus4. If you want Asus4, drop it to x00230 (or x02230); if you want Dsus2, drop it to xx0230. Given that you are playing an E bass, it is also possible that you are looking for E7sus (E A B D -- in open position, 020200, or 020230; there are many, many possible ways to play this chord outside of root position so I just gave you two root voicings.)


This is a Cmaj#11b9, an unusual chord indeed. It is not often that you see a b9 in a major chord.



E C# E B B E Is your first chord, making it an E6 of some kind; it has no third so it can be major or minor. You may consider voicing this 022x20. Or, replace the x with a 1 for E6 or a 0 for EMi6. You can also turn this into a 6/9 by playing 0x2122 or just xx2122 if you have a bassist.
E B F# B B E is your second chord. This is a strangely voiced Esus2 chord (this thread is full of those) or an exceptionally strangely voiced Bsus4 chord. You may want to note that this voicing is a little bit muddled because you have a cycle of fifths going on on the three bass strings.
E B D# B B E is your third chord. This is an EMaj7 chord of some kind; like your E6 it has no third. You can turn this into an EMaj7 (021100/02110x) or an EMiMaj7 (021000/02100x). There is tonnes more that you can do with this if you add in extensions.


Your Cadd9#11 has no third which is fine, but if you want one you can do x32032. You also have your #11 in a strange place in that F#Maj7#11 chord (it's producing a tritone with the octave root) on top of again having no third.. Also your last chord isn't a Bsus4; it's a B majorAdd11. 8 on the third string is a D#.

This post was edited by Me2NiK on Aug 3 2011 03:37am

Man i'd love to know all of these chords and WHY they are the chords they are etc

Ideally, I want to know more chords so I can blues jam