The 1 st chord in Dire Straits “Brothers In Arms” is a G#m add9. Great for writing songs about dark subject matter. This has the effect of reinforcing the “bleak” or “miserable” nature of the minor chord. The “minor add9” chord: a minor chord with the 9 th note of the scale added in.Walter Becker & Donald Fagen had such a fondness for this chord that they actually gave it a name, the “mu-major” chord. You’ll also hear this chord in loads of Steely Dan songs. A favourite of Andy Summers – check out the first chord of “Every Breath You Take”.
A really “pretty” and “warm” sounding chord. The “add9” chord: a major chord with the 9 th note of the scale added in.Anyway… let’s get started (click on the name of each chord to hear it being played – at the end of the post, you’ll find the shapes that I used for these examples): It can also help if you can associate that type of chord with a well known, or obvious, example of it being put to use as I have done in these descriptions. If it helps you remember the inherent sound of that type of chord, then you’re doing it right. These may (or may not) make sense to you, but that’s not the point: what you should do is come up with a way of describing them which makes sense to you – it doesn’t matter if it’s nonsensical to anyone else. In the examples I’ve given, I’ve tried to express the mood that I associate with each of these chord types. What follows is a list of ten different chord types and the way that I recognise them.īasically the idea is that you create a sort of mental “colour chart” or “mood board” with each type of chord having it’s very own characteristics… a feel or mood that you associate with that chord type. Last time we looked at just major & minor chords, but as we all know, there’s always some “awkward” or “odd” chord that can throw a spanner in the works when it comes to figuring out a song. Following on from the last post I put up about figuring out the chords to a song, I thought I’d share my method for identifying different types of chord.
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