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folky chords?

Unread post by Senior Gomez » Wed Feb 16, 2005 5:08 pm

hey, um i was playin around and tryin to make a song. and normaly i dont do this but what are some neet chords to play around w/ that arent like barr chords? the ones i "made" are:
-0-----------0-----------------
-5---s-------3--s--------------
-6---t-------2---t--4p2--4p2-
-4---r-------x---r-----x------x
-5---u-------3--u--------------
-x---m------0--m-------------

something like that kinda sound to it. i hope the tabs show up, first time making them (by hand too)

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Unread post by filmdude100cms » Wed Feb 16, 2005 5:41 pm

its all in how you play it, i do something i call of center syncopated strumming on some things, and it makes it sound folky or blue grass or however i want it. i can made a complicated chord sound that way, or a regular G, so sometimes its all in the playing.

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Unread post by fatjack » Wed Feb 16, 2005 9:56 pm

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Unread post by c_tietze » Fri Feb 25, 2005 10:52 am

Folk songs usually are comprised of standard open position chords at the top of the neck.

G C D, etc.

Of course you can write a folk song using any chords you like, many if not most folk songs are comprised of open chords.
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Unread post by fatjack » Fri Feb 25, 2005 8:06 pm

c_tietze wrote:Folk songs usually are comprised of standard open position chords at the top of the neck.

G C D, etc.

Of course you can write a folk song using any chords you like, many if not most folk songs are comprised of open chords.
its funny how fol music has really lots its true definition. it seems that folk now is just a guy with a guitar singing over simple chords.

i'll give somebody a cookie if they can tell me what folk music really is

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Unread post by QuattroDore » Fri Feb 25, 2005 8:12 pm

Its orginally a way of telling history through generations I think. Obviously set to music.

The first recorded evidence around Homer's time (The Illiad).

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Unread post by fatjack » Fri Feb 25, 2005 8:15 pm

QuattroDore wrote:Its orginally a way of telling history through generations I think. Obviously set to music.

The first recorded evidence around Homer's time (The Illiad).

Peanut Butter please.
i guess you could look at it that way

i think technically its supposed to be music with a message, usually a political one. its also closely associated with local music (which is a nice way of saying music of the lower classes) bob dylan is an example of folk music defined correctly

and the reason its associated with simple chords is because any hippie could pick up a guitar and start banging away on three chords, so thats what they did during the folk revival in the 60's

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Unread post by QuattroDore » Fri Feb 25, 2005 8:50 pm

I know more about music than you.
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Unread post by jellyfish » Fri Feb 25, 2005 8:54 pm

QuattroDore wrote:I know more about music than you.
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Unread post by QuattroDore » Fri Feb 25, 2005 8:56 pm

Thanks, Jennifer.

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Unread post by jellyfish » Fri Feb 25, 2005 8:57 pm

QuattroDore wrote:Thanks, Jennifer.

hehehe
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Unread post by lyrics101 » Fri Feb 25, 2005 9:54 pm

Country is a 4/4 European Waltz with Celtic progressions and Hungarian Minor scales.

So I'd guess folk is right along those lines.
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Unread post by fatjack » Fri Feb 25, 2005 10:05 pm

lyrics101 wrote:Country is a 4/4 European Waltz with Celtic progressions and Hungarian Minor scales.

So I'd guess folk is right along those lines.
umm... how can anything thats 4/4 be a waltz?

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Unread post by Easy E » Sat Feb 26, 2005 10:06 am

4/4 sounds like a polish waltz, yeah i made a pole joke
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Unread post by fatjack » Sat Feb 26, 2005 1:14 pm

eze3484 wrote:4/4 sounds like a polish waltz, yeah i made a pole joke
good one

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