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Originally Posted by Guitar Slim II
Neither voicing is particularly great from a voice leading perspective -- not the full six string chord anyway. So neither one can really be considered the "preferred"voicing.
One thing about the voicing with both pinkie and ring is, it makes shifting to the D chord easier . I think that's why a lot of guitar players use it.
And, yeah, there's the C9 thing ( can't do acoustic rock without knowing that one ), and also Dsus4. Think The Beatles "Hide Your Love Away"
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Actually in a bluegrass setting voice leading generally is "not preferred" and the 'Tony Rice' G (most often w/no 3rd) is by far the standard voicing, for several reasons:
- In blue-er bluegrass, the rhythm 'canvas' is more open for vocals & soloists to use major, minor or in-between 3rds and various other blue scale degrees
- It has a harder edge, which particularly suits harder driving tunes & songs of which the genre has many
- It easily accommodates the kinds of G ornaments which are common in bluegrass
- I'm pretty sure the voicing most commonly used by almost every accomplished guitarist in the genre is the default definition of 'preferred'