There are so many beautiful sounding chords you can play on the guitar. It’s one of the triggers that makes me want to grab my guitar daily. I love sitting in my comfty chair, strumming a couple of those chords, fiddling around with the sounds, adding or lifting some fingers here and there, and see where it takes me and how it evolves into a piece of music.
I couple of years ago I wrote a similar post on this topic 10 Ways to Play the Most Beautiful Open Chord Shapes, but today I want to share with you my personal top 12 favourite sounding chords. This top 12 does change from time to time, nevertheless these chords sound amazing, each in their own right.
You can use these chords to add some extra flavour, brilliance or spice to your songs. It’s also nice to end your song with a divine or dreamy chord as icing on the cake.
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While strumming these chords, you also want to put effort in making them sound beautiful. Strum your strings delicately, elegantly and skillfully to hear the qualities and bright sparkling sounds of each chord.
Play them in arpeggiated style (down or up strumming, where the strings are played one at a time) or try them with a fingerstyle pattern. Play with them softly with the flesh of your fingers, the attack of your nails or a combination of both. Play them gently or firmly with a pick. Experiment, feel and listen with your ears.
Some of the chords shown here, might already be familiar to you like the G major chord, but that doesn’t change the fact that it’s a great sounding chord. It’s big, solid, flexible and sparkly. It’s a chord you can rely on.
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Also, some chords just sound really great or even better when you play them with a capo on the first, second or third fret. Playing chords like an open C or G major chord a little higher up the neck with a capo, and it will make your guitar (preferably acoustic in this case) sound like a true angel.
The chords shown below are not particular beginner chords, so don’t get discouraged if you can’t play all of these right on the spot. Be persistent and keep practicing.
The E/A chord sounds really nice when you follow it up with an A major chord. Although all the chords sound just great on their own, the trick is to incorporate them into a nice chord progression and make some music with it.
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So what is your favourite sounding chord? Please share in the comments. Write it down like 320033 (G major chord). I’d love to know.Think about the hundreds of songs you can play with a handful of chords. If you use a guitar capo, things are even easier because you can transpose the chords in different positions of the guitar neck.
The problem is, playing the same chords over and over again is the main reason why you get bored of playing the guitar.
All the songs sound the same, and after a while you find yourself thinking “How can I learn new chords?” or “When can I learn intermediate chords?”
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In this fingerstyle guitar lesson, I am going to show you nine beautiful chords on guitar and how to actually play them.
The list of chords we are about to learn includes many extended chords. An extended chord is a simple chord (or basic chord) played with additional notes from the scale.
The Cadd9 chord is an extended chord that can be used in the C major and G major key as well as relative minor keys such as A minor or E minor.
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The Cadd9 chord is a beautiful open chord that fits perfectly between chords such as G or E minor. The additional note D creates a resonating cluster with the top E string open.
The chord progression I am about to show you is Cadd9 | G | Am | Fadd9|. The F chord is also played as an add9 chord.
One of the things I like a lot about the Gsus4 chord is that it’s easy to create simple voicings within the chords.
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The m9 is a chord with root, minor 3rd, perfect 5th, minor 7th, and major 9th. We add the minor 7th even though it doesn’t show in the chord name.
With this chord we can come up with a simple yet beautiful chord progression like this one: Em9 | Cadd9 | G | D |
This chord can be quite stretchy on the little finger, so I highly recommend that position your left hand correctly (more info in this article).
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The add9 chord is a basic chord played with the major 9th. The notes of the Am(add9) chord are A C E B (Root, minor 3rd, perfect 5th, and major 9th).
I love the exotic sound of the Am(add9) chord. Once you overcome the initial struggle, you will find yourself playing this chord over and over again.
The Amaj7 chord is a basic chord with the extended 7th. The notes are A C# E G# (Root, major 3rd, perfect 5th, and major 7th).
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The notes for the Dsus2 are D E A (root, major 2nd, and perfect 5th). The notes for the Dsus4 are D G A (Root, perfect 4th, perfect 5th).
Using both DSus2 and DSus4 in the same chord progression make it easy to write awesome chord progressions. You can actually write a song with just these two chords.
The 13th chords are extended chords played with root, 3, 5, 7, and 13. Just like the Em9 chord, the Bb13 will also have the 7th.
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In this example, we are going to play Ebm9 | Bb13 | Dbmaj7 | Dbmaj9 |. Some of these chords are stretchy so take it step-by-step.
This chord is insanely beautiful, and it can be played with both strumming and fingerpicking technique. It’s a basic chord with the extended 7th and 9th.
The notes of the C#m9 chord are C# E G# B D# (Root, minor 3rd, perfect 5th, minor 7th, and major 9th).
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This chord works beautifully with chords such as A, E, F#m, and B major. If we also add extensions to these chords, the result is guaranteed.
The Emaj7 chord is a beautiful dreamy chord that can be played along with the Amaj7, C#m9, or B major. In this example, we are going to focus on a simple example using Emaj | Amaj |x2
The goal for this lesson is to show you that you can quickly implement beautiful chords into your playing as long as you put them into practice.
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